Famous quotes containing the word apology:
“It’s no good talking to a man with an apology for a brain.”
—Lester Cole (1904–1985)
“Senators and presidents have climbed so high with pain enough, not because they think the place specially agreeable, but as an apology for real worth, and to vindicate their manhood in our eyes. This conspicuous chair is their compensation to themselves for being of a poor, cold, hard nature.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)