Famous quotes containing the words carey thomas, carey, thomas and/or library:
“One thing I am determined on is that by the time I die my brain shall weigh as much as a man’s if study and learning can make it so.”
—M. Carey Thomas (1857–1935)
“All ye poets of the age,
All ye witlings of the stage,
Learn your jingles to reform,
Crop your numbers to conform.
Let your little verses flow
Gently, sweetly, row by row;
Let the verse the subject fit,
Little subject, little wit.
Namby-Pamby is your guide,
Albion’s joy, Hibernia’s pride.”
—Henry Carey (1693?–1743)
“When the morning was waking over the war
He put on his clothes and stepped out and he died....”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“Readers transform a library from a mausoleum into many theaters.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)