Famous quotes containing the words bryan waller proctor, bryan waller, bryan, waller and/or proctor:
“Most writers steal a good thing when they can,
And when tis safely got tis worth the winning.
The worst of t is we now and then detect em,
Before they ever dream that we suspect em.”
—Bryan Waller Proctor (17871874)
“Most writers steal a good thing when they can,
And when tis safely got tis worth the winning.
The worst of t is we now and then detect em,
Before they ever dream that we suspect em.”
—Bryan Waller Proctor (17871874)
“I think we will live through his term, Archie, and Ill tell you something, old man, if they dont stop hammering me, first Bryan for not enforcing the Anti-Trust Law and Wall Street for enforcing it, they may succeed in electing me to another term whether I want it or not.”
—William Howard Taft (18571930)
“Poets that lasting Marble seek
Must carve in Latine or in Greek,
We write in Sand, our Language grows,
And like the Tide our work oerflows.”
—Edmund Waller (16061687)
“Most writers steal a good thing when they can,
And when tis safely got tis worth the winning.
The worst of t is we now and then detect em,
Before they ever dream that we suspect em.”
—Bryan Waller Proctor (17871874)