Slippery Rock State

Famous quotes containing the words slippery, rock and/or state:

    My credit now stands on such slippery ground
    That one of two bad ways you must conceit me,
    Either a coward or a flatterer.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    You have constantly urged the idea that you were persecuted because you did not come from West-Point, and you repeat it in these letters. This, my dear general, is I fear, the rock on which you have split.
    Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow.
    Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)