Mailbox Rule

Famous quotes containing the words mailbox and/or rule:

    The snow far off on the pine
    nesting into the needles
    like addicts into their fix.
    The mailbox as stiff as a soldier
    but wearing a chef’s hat.
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    In a country where misery and want were the foundation of the social structure, famine was periodic, death from starvation common, disease pervasive, thievery normal, and graft and corruption taken for granted, the elimination of these conditions in Communist China is so striking that negative aspects of the new rule fade in relative importance.
    Barbara Tuchman (1912–1989)