Ann Haydon Jones

Famous quotes containing the words ann, haydon and/or jones:

    Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
    George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.
    —Benjamin Haydon (1786–1846)

    Come all you rounders if you want to hear
    A story ‘bout a brave engineer;
    Casey Jones, that was the rounder’s name
    On a heavy eight-wheeler he rode to fame.
    —Unknown. Casey Jones (l. 1–4)