Polish Victory Lap

Famous quotes containing the words polish, victory and/or lap:

    ‘Then I polish all the silver, which a supper-table lacquers;
    Then I write the pretty mottoes which you find inside the
    crackers’—
    Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

    Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart!—it seems to say,—there is victory yet for all justice; and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own;
    William Wordsworth (1770–1850)