Famous quotes containing the words added and/or support:
“What we cut off from our other faults is very often but so much added to our pride.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
“All experience teaches that, whenever there is a great national establishment, employing large numbers of officials, the public must be reconciled to support many incompetent men; for such is the favoritism and nepotism always prevailing in the purlieus of these establishments, that some incompetent persons are always admitted, to the exclusion of many of the worthy.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)