Famous quotes containing the words pope, nicholas and/or iii:
“From pride, from pride, our very reas’ning springs;
Account for moral, as for nat’ral things:
Why charge we Heav’n in those, in these acquit?
In both, to reason right is to submit.”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)
“Down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound.
He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot,
And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot;”
—Clement Clarke Moore (1779–1863)
“The army is the true nobility of our country.”
—Napoleon Bonaparte III (1808–1873)