British Lions Tour

Famous quotes containing the words british, lions and/or tour:

    If we were doing this in the Falklands they would love it. It’s part of our heritage. The British have always been fighting wars.
    British soccer fan. quoted in Independent (London, Dec. 23, 1988)

    Danger knows full well
    That Caesar is more dangerous than he.
    We are two lions littered in one day,
    And I the elder and more terrible,
    And Caesar shall go forth.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    Left Washington, September 6, on a tour through Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, and Virginia.... Absent nineteen days. Received every where heartily. The country is again one and united! I am very happy to be able to feel that the course taken has turned out so well.
    Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)