Famous quotes containing the words hard and/or top:
“A strange age of the world this, when empires, kingdoms, and republics come a-begging to a private mans door, and utter their complaints at his elbow! I cannot take up a newspaper but I find that some wretched government or other, hard pushed and on its last legs, is interceding with me, the reader, to vote for it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“O, tis a parlous boy,
Bold, quick, ingenious, forward, capable.
He is all the mothers, from the top to toe.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
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