Trap Door

Famous quotes containing the words trap and/or door:

    “All Coolidge had to do in 1924 was to keep his mean trap shut, to be elected. All Harding had to do in 1920 was repeat “Avoid foreign entanglements.” All Hoover had to do in 1928 was to endorse Coolidge. All Roosevelt had to do in 1932 was to point to Hoover.”
    —Robert E. Sherwood (1896–1955)

    “You there, I here,
    With just the door ajar
    That oceans are,
    And prayer,
    And that pale sustenance,
    Despair!”
    —Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)