Famous quotes containing the words relief, society and/or presidency:
“The beginners well-known propensity for obtruding upon his own privacy, by introducing himself, or a vicar, into his first novel, owes less to the attraction of a ready theme than to the relief of getting rid of oneself, before going on to better things.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (18991977)
“I prefer surveying for a week to spending a week in fashionable society even of the best class.”
—Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (18421911)
“I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. Youve got to just stand there and take it.”
—Lyndon Baines Johnson (19081973)
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