Sir Thomas Robinson

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

    “Blame but thyself that hast misdone,
    And well deserved to have blame;
    Change thou thy way so evil begun,
    And then my lute shall sound that same:
    But if till then my fingers play
    By thy desert their wonted way,
    Blame not my lute.”
    —Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?–1542)

    “The first rule of venture capitalism should be Shoot the Inventor.”
    —Richard, Sir Storey (b. 1937)

    “Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.”
    —18th century English proverb, collected in Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia (1732)

    “Dark, marvelous, and inscrutable he moved on
    Till down the fiery distance he was gone,”
    —Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)