Famous quotes containing the words tom and/or young:
“The man that hails you Tom or Jack,
And proves by thumps upon your back
How he esteems your merit,
Is such a friend, that one had need
Be very much his friend indeed
To pardon or to bear it.”
—William Cowper (1731–1800)
“Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)