Esme Francis Howard

Famous quotes containing the words francis and/or howard:

    “Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.”
    —St. Francis Of Assisi (c. 1182–1226)

    “Well, from what you tell me I should say that it was not only a landslide but a tidal wave and holocaust all rolled into one general cataclysm.”
    —William Howard Taft (1857–1930)