Famous quotes containing the words richard and/or gordon:
“Words convey the mental treasures of one period to the generations that follow; and laden with this, their precious freight, they sail safely across gulfs of time in which empires have suffered shipwreck and the languages of common life have sunk into oblivion.”
—Anonymous. Quoted in Richard Chevenix Trench, On the Study of Words, lecture 1 (1858)
“All who joy would win
Must share it,—Happiness was born a twin.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)