Fourth Rate Launched

Famous quotes containing the words fourth, rate and/or launched:

    “I asked my mother for fifty cents
    To see the elephant jump the fence.
    He jumped so high he reached the sky,
    And didn’t get back till the Fourth of July.”
    —Unknown. I Asked My Mother (l. 1–4)

    “Whoever thinks his friend more important than his country, I rate him nowhere.”
    —Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)

    “A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.”
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)