Famous quotes containing the words sitting, vice and/or president:
“The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.”
—Wallace Stevens (18791955)
“There is probably not one person, however great his virtue, who cannot be led by the complexities of lifes circumstances to a familiarity with the vices he condemns the most vehementlywithout his completely recognizing this vice which, disguised as certain events, touches him and wounds him: strange words, an inexplicable attitude, on a given night, of the person whom he otherwise has so many reasons to love.”
—Marcel Proust (18711922)
“[The reason a man has] so much trouble with the Senate is that there isnt a man in the Senate who doesnt think he is better suited to be President than the President, and thinks he might have been President except for luck.”
—Calvin Coolidge (18721933)