Famous quotes containing the words james and/or gordon:
“We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition.”
—William James (1842–1910)
“Man, being reasonable, must get drunk;
The best of life is but intoxication.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)