Sir John Franklin

Famous quotes containing the words sir john, sir and/or franklin:

    “Sir John, Sir, is a very unclubbable man.”
    —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

    “From alle wymmen mi love is lent
    And lyht on Alysoun.”
    —Unknown. Alison. . .

    Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250–1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939)

    “It was one of the rules which above all others made Doctr. Franklin the most amiable man in society, “never to contradict any body.””
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)