Finishing Fourth

Famous quotes containing the words finishing and/or fourth:

    Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
    Richard M. Nixon (b. 1913)

    All night I’ve held your hand,
    as if you had
    a fourth time faced the kingdom of the mad—
    its hackneyed speech, its homicidal eye—
    and dragged me home alive. . . .
    Robert Lowell (1917–1977)