Triumph

Famous quotes containing the word triumph:

    Our democracy, our culture, our whole way of life is a spectacular triumph of the blah. Why not have a political convention without politics to nominate a leader who’s out in front of nobody?... Maybe our national mindlessness is the very thing that keeps us from turning into one of those smelly European countries full of pseudo-reds and crypto-fascists and greens who dress like forest elves.
    —P.J. (Patrick Jake)

    When Learning’s Triumph o’er her barb’rous Foes
    First rear’d the Stage, immortal Shakespear rose;
    Each Change of many-colour’d Life he drew,
    Exhausted Worlds, and then imagin’d new:
    Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

    To live for a principle, for the triumph of some reform by which all mankind are to be lifted up—to be wedded to an idea—may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
    Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902)