Famous quotes containing the words phillips and/or asked:
“What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.”
—Wendell Phillips (1811–1884)
“One of my playmates, who was apprenticed to a printer, and was somewhat of a wag, asked his master one afternoon if he might go a-fishing, and his master consented. He was gone three months. When he came back, he said that he had been to the Grand Banks, and went to setting type again as if only an afternoon had intervened.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)