Famous quotes containing the words herbert and/or began:
“They told me there, that he was lately gone
About some land, which he had dearly bought
Long since on earth, to take possession.”
—George Herbert (1593–1633)
“Once, when lying in bed with no paper at hand, he began to sketch the idea for a new machine on the back of his wife’s nightgown. He asked her if she knew the figure he was drawing. “Yes,” she answered, “the figure of a fool.””
—For the State of New Jersey, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)