Slip

Famous quotes containing the word slip:

    “Caesar’s spirit, ranging for revenge,
    With Ate by his side, come hot from hell,
    Shall in these confines, with a monarch’s voice,
    Cry “Havoc!” and let slip the dogs of war.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Woman was originally the inventor, the manufacturer, the provider. She has allowed one office after another gradually to slip from her hand, until she retains, with loose grasp, only the so-called housekeeping.... Having thus given up one by one the occupations which required knowledge of materials and processes, and skill in using them ... she rightly feels that what’s left is mere deadening drudgery.”
    —Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (1842–1911)

    “I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I believe they are correct. Now, I’m not going to deny that you don’t now and then slip up on something; no one bats a thousand.”
    —Ronald Reagan (b. 1911)