Famous quotes containing the words extra, point and/or attempts:
“Three early risings make an extra day.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Sleaze is a point by point refutation of elegance.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“While I am in favor of the Government promptly enforcing the laws for the present, defending the forts and collecting the revenue, I am not in favor of a war policy with a view to the conquest of any of the slave States; except such as are needed to give us a good boundary. If Maryland attempts to go off, suppress her in order to save the Potomac and the District of Columbia. Cut a piece off of western Virginia and keep Missouri and all the Territories.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)