Famous quotes containing the words sir and/or burke:
“Here lies the body of Sir John Guise.
Nobody laughs, and nobody cries;
Where his soul is and how it fares
Nobody knows and nobody cares.”
—Anonymous. From Frobisher’s New Select Collection of Epitaphs (c. 1791)
“To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)