Famous quotes containing the words sir, simon and/or rattle:
“When Sir Joshua Reynolds died
All Nature was degraded;”
—William Blake (1757–1827)
“Stevenson had noble ideas—as did the young Franklin for that matter. But Stevenson felt that the way to implement them was to present himself as a thoughtful idealist and wait for the world to flock to him. He considered it below him, or wrong, to scramble out among the people and ask them what they wanted. Roosevelt grappled voters to him. Stevenson shied off from them. Some thought him too pure to desire power, though he showed ambition when it mattered.”
—Garry Wills, U.S. historian. Certain Trumpets: The Call of Leaders, ch. 9, Simon & Schuster (1994)
“There’s keen delight in what we have:
The rattle of pebbles on the shore
Under the receding wave.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)