British Museum Reading

Famous quotes containing the words british museum, british, museum and/or reading:

    “When a man wants to write a book full of unassailable facts, he always goes to the British Museum.”
    —Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)

    “Never forget that you are Germans. Never forget that you are Nazis!”
    —Edmund H. North, British screenwriter, and Lewis Gilbert. Admiral Lutjens (Karel Stepanek)

    “One can think of life after the fish is in the canoe.”
    —Hawaiian saying no. 23, ‘lelo No’Eau, collected, translated, and annotated by Mary Kawena Pukui, Bishop Museum Press, Hawaii (1983)

    “How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)