Seat Declared Vacant

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

    “They have thrown away her electric toothbrush, someone else slips
    The key into the lock of her safety-deposit box
    At the Crocker-Anglo Bank; her seat at the cricket matches
    Is warmed by buttocks less delectable than hers.”
    —Randall Jarrell (1914–1965)

    “We would fain express our appreciation of the freedom and steady wisdom, so rare in the reformer, with which he declared that he was not born to abolish slavery, but to do right.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

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