Sir John Franklin

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

    “Will, when speaking well can’t win her,
    Saying nothing do’t?
    Prithee, why so mute?”
    —Sir John Suckling (1609–1642)

    “They warsled up, they warsled down,
    Till Sir John fell to the ground,
    And there was a knife in Sir Willie’s pouch,
    Gied him a deadlie wound.”
    —Unknown. The Twa Brothers (l. 5–8)

    “That which resembles most living one’s life over again, seems to be to recall all the circumstances of it; and, to render this remembrance more durable, to record them in writing.”
    —Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)