Famous quotes containing the words state, football and/or title:
“The man of large and conspicuous public service in civil life must be content without the Presidency. Still more, the availability of a popular man in a doubtful State will secure him the prize in a close contest against the first statesman of the country whose State is safe.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (18221893)
“In this dream that dogs me I am part
Of a silent crowd walking under a wall,
Leaving a football match, perhaps, or a pit,
All moving the same way.”
—Philip Larkin (19221986)
“The title wise is, for the most part, falsely applied. How can one be a wise man, if he does not know any better how to live than other men?if he is only more cunning and intellectually subtle?”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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