Jones

Jones may refer to:

  • Jones (surname), a common Anglo-Welsh surname
  • Jones (cricketer) (first name unknown), English cricketer in the 1740s
  • Jones calculus, a description of polarization in optics
  • Jones Convenience Stores, a chain of shops based in Westfield, Somerset
  • Jones (Animal Farm), a human character in George Orwell's novel Animal Farm
  • "Jones" (Law & Order: Criminal Intent), an episode of the TV series Law & Order: Criminal Intent
  • Jones Bootmaker, a UK-based footwear retailer
  • Jones Soda, a brand of soda pop
  • Jones Sewing Machine Company, a UK sewing-machine manufacturer acquired in 1968 by Brother Industries
  • Jones, the unit of specific detectivity

Read more about Jones:  Places

Famous quotes containing the word jones:

    I said in my novel that the clergyman is a kind of human Sunday. Jones and I settled that my sister May was a kind of human Good Friday and Mrs. Bovill an Easter Monday or some other Bank Holiday.
    Samuel Butler (1835–1902)

    Intrepid, unprincipled, reckless, predatory, with boundless ambition, civilized in externals but a savage at heart, America is, or may yet be, the Paul Jones of nations.
    Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    Casey Jones, mounted to the cabin,
    Casey Jones, throttle in his hand,
    Casey Jones mounted to the cabin,
    Took his farewell journey to the Promised Land.
    —Unknown. Casey Jones (l. 49–52)