Seat Declared Vacant

Famous quotes containing the words seat, declared and/or vacant:

    “We early arrive at the great discovery that there is one mind common to all individual men: that what is individual is less than what is universal ... that error, vice and disease have their seat in the superficial or individual nature.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.”
    —Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)

    “Every time I bestow a vacant office I make a hundred discontented persons and one ingrate.”
    —Louis XIV (1638–1715)