Chief Petty

Famous quotes containing the words chief and/or petty:

“To be rich is to have a ticket of admission to the masterworks and chief men of each race. It is to have the sea, by voyaging; to visit the mountains, Niagara, the Nile, the desert, Rome, Paris, Constantinople: to see galleries, libraries, arsenals, manufactories.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“When petty people get into power they consider themselves unexcelled in the world.”
—Chinese proverb.