Herbert Joseph Thompson

Famous quotes containing the words herbert, joseph and/or thompson:

    “The six-daies world-transposing in an houre,
    A kinde of tune, which all things heare and fear;”
    —George Herbert (1593–1633)

    “The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly—because if they don’t speak fast nobody will listen to them.”
    —Michael Caine [Maurice Joseph Micklewhite] (b. 1933)

    “I stand amid the dust o’ the mounded years—
    My mangled youth lies dead beneath the heap,
    My days have crackled and gone up in smoke,
    Have puffed and burst as sun-starts on a stream.”
    —Francis Thompson (1859–1907)