British Rule

Famous quotes containing the words british and/or rule:

    “It’s like the Beatles coming together again—let’s hope they don’t go on a world tour.”
    —Matt Frei, British journalist. Quoted in Listener (London, June 21, 1990)

    “There were some schools, so called [in my youth]; but no qualification was ever required of a teacher, beyond “readin, writin, and cipherin,” to the Rule of Three. If a straggler supposed to understand latin, happened to sojourn in the neighborhood, he was looked upon as a wizzard. There was absolutely nothing to excite ambition for education.”
    —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)