Sir Thomas Browne

Famous quotes containing the words sir, thomas and/or browne:

    “They warsled up, they warsled down,
    Till Sir John fell to the ground,
    And there was a knife in Sir Willie’s pouch,
    Gied him a deadlie wound.”
    —Unknown. The Twa Brothers (l. 5–8)

    “Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.”
    —Eighteenth-century English proverb, collected in Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia (1732)

    “Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.”
    —Thomas Browne (1605–1682)