Burke Cup

Famous quotes containing the words burke and/or cup:

    Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
    —Edmund Burke (1729–1797)

    Sisters define their rivalry in terms of competition for the gold cup of parental love. It is never perceived as a cup which runneth over, rather a finite vessel from which the more one sister drinks, the less is left for the others.
    Elizabeth Fishel (20th century)