Famous quotes containing the words james, gordon and/or brown:
“The man who knows governments most completely is he who troubles himself least about a definition which shall give their essence. Enjoying an intimate acquaintance with all their particularities in turn, he would naturally regard an abstract conception in which these were unified as a thing more misleading than enlightening.”
—William James (1842–1910)
“Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens ... to stumble upon it.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“Whippersnapper clerks
Call us out of our name
We got to say mister
To spindling boys”
—Sterling Allen Brown (b. 1901)