Strain Due Applied

Famous quotes containing the words strain, due and/or applied:

“The standards of His Majesty’s taste made all those ladies who aspired to his favour, and who were near the Statutable size, strain and swell themselves, like the frogs in the fable, to rival and bulk and dignity of the ox. Some succeeded, and others burst.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

“You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in their lawsuits.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Exodus 23:6.

““The worst reporter, even for his age, in New York,” was the affectionate epithet applied to me.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)