French Victory

Famous quotes containing the words french and/or victory:

    “If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York, with fashion and covetousness, and wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine and French coffee, thou shalt find no radiance of wisdom in the lonely waste of the pinewoods.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “There’s a victory and defeat—the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats—which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.”
    —Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)