Parker Rust Proof

Famous quotes containing the words parker, rust and/or proof:

“Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.”
—Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)

“How dull it is to pause, to make and end,
To rust unburnished, not to shine in use!
As though to breathe were life!”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

“He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Failure is the true test of greatness. And if it be said, that continual success is a proof that a man wisely knows his powers,—it is only to be added, that, in that case, he knows them to be small.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)