British Lions Tour

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

    Swans moulting die, snow melts to tears,
    Roses do blush and hang their heads,
    Henry Noel, British poet, and William Strode, British poet. Beauty Extolled (attributed to Noel and to Strode)

    King Richard. Lions make leopards tame.
    Mowbray. Yea, but not change his spots.
    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)