Declared Vacant April

Famous quotes containing the words declared, vacant and/or april:

    “I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.”
    —Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)

    “Every time I bestow a vacant office I make a hundred discontented persons and one ingrate.”
    —Louis XIV (1638–1715)

    “I, Alphonso, live and learn,
    Seeing Nature go astern.
    Things deteriorate in kind;
    Lemons run to leaves and rind;
    Meagre crop of figs and limes;
    Shorter days and harder times.
    Flowering April cools and dies
    In the insufficient skies.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)