Dark Horse Candidates

Famous quotes containing the words dark, horse and/or candidates:

    “It is better that, as scholars,
    They should think hard in the dark cuffs
    Of voluminous cloaks,
    And shave their heads and bodies.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.”
    —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

    “The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal—that you can gather votes like box tops—is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.”
    —Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965)