Famous quotes containing the words achievement and/or standards:
“Artthe one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.”
—James Thurber (18941961)
“The standards of His Majestys taste made all those ladies who aspired to his favour, and who were near the Statutable size, strain and swell themselves, like the frogs in the fable, to rival and bulk and dignity of the ox. Some succeeded, and others burst.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (16941773)
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