Famous quotes containing the words powell and/or wrote:
“No battle is worth fighting except the last one.”
—J. Enoch Powell (b. 1912)
“What avail all your scholarly accomplishments and learning, compared with wisdom and manhood? To omit his other behavior, see what a work this comparatively unread and unlettered man wrote within six weeks. Where is our professor of belles-lettres, or of logic and rhetoric, who can write so well?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)