Famous quotes containing the words general, strike and/or called:
“We all have known
Good critics, who have stamped out poets hopes;
Good statesmen, who pulled ruin on the state;
Good patriots, who, for a theory, risked a cause;
Good kings, who disembowelled for a tax;
Good Popes, who brought all good to jeopardy;
Good Christians, who sat still in easy-chairs;
And damned the general world for standing up.
Now, may the good God pardon all good men!”
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning (18061861)
“If you address a ghost as Thing!
Or strike him with a hatchet,
He is permitted by the King
To drop all formal parleying
And then youre sure to catch it!”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (18321898)
“Theres a wonderful family called Stein:
Theres Gert and theres Ep and theres Ein.
Gerts poems are bunk,
Eps statues are junk,
And no-one can understand Ein.”
—Anonymous.