Sir Thomas Robinson

Famous quotes containing the words sir, thomas and/or robinson:

    When Sir Robert Walpole was dying, he told Ranby his surgeon that he desired his body might be opened. Ranby acting great horror cried, “Good God, my Lord, don’t talk of that!” “Nay,” said Sir Robert, “it will not be till I am dead, and that I shall not feel it—nor you neither.”
    Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

    But let it pass, and think it is of kind
    That often change doth please a woman’s mind.
    —Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?–1542)

    If factory-labor is not a means of education to the operative of to-day, it is because the employer does not do his duty. It is because he treats his work-people like machines, and forgets that they are struggling, hoping, despairing human beings.
    —Harriet H. Robinson (1825–1911)