Richard Montgomery High

Famous quotes containing the words richard, montgomery and/or high:

    “If that’s the world’s smartest man, God help us.”
    —Lucille Feynman, mother of American physicist Richard Feynman (1918-1988)

    “The fates are not quite obdurate;
    They have a grim, sardonic way
    Of granting them who supplicate
    The thing they wanted yesterday.”
    —Roselle Mercier Montgomery (1874–1933)

    “Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request. One must seem to hear the unreasonable demands of the petulant, unmoved, and the tedious details of the dull, untired. That is the least price that a man must pay for a high station.”
    —Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)