Famous quotes containing the words frame and/or dragging:
“In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections; keeping inseparable and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)
“When I had reached my term, I looked like a rat dragging a stolen egg.”
—Colette [Sidonie Gabrielle Colette] (1873–1954)