Henry Viii/final Years - 1540%e2%80%931547

Famous quotes containing the words viii, final and/or years:

    “When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
    What is man, that thou art mindful of him?”
    —Bible: Hebrew Psalm VIII (l. VIII, 3–4)

    “The Germans are always too late. They are late, like music, which is always the last of the arts to express a world condition,—when that world condition is already in its final stages. They are abstract and mystical.”
    —Thomas Mann (1875–1955)

    “To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.”
    —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)