Famous quotes containing the words carey thomas, carey, thomas and/or library:
“... my one aim and concentrated purpose shall be and is to show that women can learn, can reason, can compete with men in the grand fields of literature and science ... that a woman can be a woman and a true one without having all her time engrossed by dress and society.”
—M. Carey Thomas (1857–1935)
“But when my seven long years are out,
O, then I’ll marry Sally;
O, then we’ll wed, and then we’ll bed—
But not in our alley!”
—Henry Carey (1693?–1743)
“Thy sharp repulse, that pricketh ay so sore,
Hath taught me to set in trifles no store,
and scape forth, since liberty is lever.”
—Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?–1542)
“Knowing I loved my books, he furnished me
From mine own library with volumes that
I prize above my dukedom.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)