Famous quotes containing the words stand and/or upright:
“She can’t stand nudity in a picture, but she has a mighty love for it in the flesh.”
—Molière [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] (1622–1673)
“Some, it seems to me, elect their rulers for their crookedness. But I think that a straight stick makes the best cane, and an upright man the best ruler.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)