Famous quotes containing the words james, wolfe, years and/or war:
“The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.”
—William James (1842–1910)
“But he lay like a warrior taking his rest
With his martial cloak around him.”
—Charles Wolfe (1791–1823)
“The world is a puzzling place today. All these banks sending us credit cards, with our names on them. Well, we didn’t order any credit cards! We don’t spend what we don’t have. So we just cut them in half and throw them out, just as soon as we open them in the mail. Imagine a bank sending credit cards to two ladies over a hundred years old! What are those folks thinking?”
—Sarah Louise Delany (b. 1889)
“No spoon has yet destroyed a mouth, but the knife of war cuts portions that are hard to swallow. Perhaps the big mouths of the privileged are able to cope with them, but they dull the teeth of the little people and ruin their stomachs.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)