Famous quotes containing the words fry, family, francis and/or interests:
“Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.”
—Christopher Fry (b. 1907)
“My ambition for station was always easily controlled. If the place came to me it was welcome. But it never seemed to me worth seeking at the cost of self-respect, or independence. My family were not historic; they were well-to-do, did not hold or seek office. It was easy for me to be contented in private life. An honor was no honor to me, if obtained by my own seeking.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“It is an art apart. Saint Francis of Assisi said—”All saints can do miracles, but few of them can keep hotel.””
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“Opinions have vested interests just as men have.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)