White Tie/elements

Famous quotes containing the words white, tie and/or elements:

    Once I had a professor say to me, “You know you have as much education as a lot of white people.” I answered, “Doctor, I have more education than most white people.”
    Joycelyn Elders (b. 1933)

    When trussing up a tiger, never tie it loosely.
    Chinese proverb.

    Barbarisation may be defined as a cultural process whereby an attained condition of high value is gradually overrun and superseded by elements of lower quality.
    Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)