Consecutive Recess Appointments

Famous quotes containing the words recess and/or appointments:

    “In a far recess of summer
    Monks are playing soccer.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “All appointments hurt. Five friends are made cold or hostile for every appointment; no new friends are made. All patronage is perilous to men of real ability or merit. It aids only those who lack other claims to public support.”
    —Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)