Famous quotes containing the words brian, wheeler and/or biography:
“Brian O’Linn was a gentleman born,
He lived at a time when no clothes they were worn.”
—Unknown. Brian O’Linn (l. 1–2)
“It ain’t often that a man’s reputashun outlasts his munny.”
—Josh Billings [Henry Wheeler Shaw] (1818–1885)
“A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect into a small bunch the flowers, the few flowers, which brought sweetness into a life, and present it as an offering to an accomplished destiny. It is the dying refrain of a completed song, the final verse of a finished poem.”
—André Maurois (1885–1967)