Times Alternately Upright

Famous quotes containing the words times, alternately and/or upright:

    “Women—one half the human race at least—care fifty times more for a marriage than a ministry.”
    —Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)

    “One key, one solution to the mysteries of the human condition, one solution to the old knots of fate, freedom, and foreknowledge, exists, the propounding, namely, of the double consciousness. A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and public nature, as the equestrians in the circus throw themselves nimbly from horse to horse, or plant one foot on the back of one, and the other foot on the back of the other.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “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)