Famous quotes containing the words nicholas and/or eliot:
“Down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound.
He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot,
And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot;”
—Clement Clarke Moore (1779–1863)
“In all failures, the beginning is certainly the half of the whole.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)