Famous quotes containing the words ace, combat and/or series:
“I do not object to Gladstones always having the ace of trumps up his sleeve, but only to his pretence that God had put it there.”
—Henry Labouchere (18311912)
“The combat ended for want of combatants.”
—Pierre Corneille (16061684)
“Every Age has its own peculiar faith.... Any attempt to translate into facts the mission of one Age with the machinery of another, can only end in an indefinite series of abortive efforts. Defeated by the utter want of proportion between the means and the end, such attempts might produce martyrs, but never lead to victory.”
—Giuseppe Mazzini (18051872)
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