Consolation Prize

Famous quotes containing the words consolation and/or prize:

“We are, to put it mildly, in a mess, and there is a strong chance that we shall have exterminated ourselves by the end of the century. Our only consolation will have to be that, as a species, we have had an exciting term of office.”
—Desmond Morris (b. 1928)

“The true runner comes to the finish and receives the prize and is crowned.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)