Famous quotes containing the words remaining, riders and/or compete:
“Because of the unusual remoteness of Russia, and because of nostalgia’s remaining throughout one’s life an insane companion, with whose heartrending oddities one is accustomed to put up in public, I feel no embarrassment in confessing to the sentimental stab of attachment to my first book.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“Good swimmers drown and good riders get thrown.”
—Chinese proverb.
“No doubt you were extremely beautiful as a young girl, but your youth could never compete with your age now.”
—Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977)