Controlled Foreign Company

Famous quotes containing the words controlled, foreign and/or company:

“To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.”
—Heraclitus (c. 535 B.C.–c. 475 B.C.)

“I am tired of loving a foreign muse.”
—Stephen Vincent Benét (1898–1943)

“I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances. I much prefer the company of ploughboys and tin-peddlers, to the silken and perfumed amity which celebrates its days of encounter by a frivolous display, by rides in a curricle, and dinners at the best taverns.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)