Sir John Maxwell

Famous quotes containing the words sir john, sir, john and/or maxwell:

    “Miss J. Hunter Dunn, Miss J. Hunter Dunn,
    Furnish’d and burnish’d by Aldershot sun,
    What strenuous singles we played after tea,
    We in the tournament—you against me!”
    —Sir John Betjeman (1906–1984)

    “When Sir Joshua Reynolds died
    All Nature was degraded;”
    —William Blake (1757–1827)

    “Mothers have as powerful an influence over the welfare of future generations, as all other causes combined.”
    —John Abbott. The Mother at Home; or the Principles of Maternal Duty, John Abbott, Crocker and Brewster (1833)

    “Poopsie, you’re just an eight-ball with hips.”
    —Griffin Jay, Maxwell Shane (1905–1983)