Herbert Joseph Thompson

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

    “The harbingers are come. See, see their mark:
    White is their color, and behold my head.
    But must they have my brain? Must they dispark
    Those sparkling notions, which therein were bred?
    Must dullness turn me to a clod?
    Yet have they left me, Thou art still my God.”
    —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)

    “They smote and fell, who set the bars
    Against the progress of the stars,
    And stayed the march of Motherland!”
    —Will Henry Thompson (1848–1918)