Straight Pull

Famous quotes containing the words straight and/or pull:

    “Maud Gonne at Howth station waiting a train,
    Pallas Athena in that straight back and arrogant head:
    All the Olympians; a thing never known again.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.”
    —Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)