Front Seat Volume

Famous quotes containing the words front, seat and/or volume:

“The dandy should aspire to be uninterruptedly sublime. He should live and sleep in front of a mirror.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)

“We imagine much more appropriately an artisan on his toilet seat or on his wife than a great president, venerable by his demeanor and his ability. It seems to us that they do not stoop from their lofty thrones even to live.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

“The other 1000 are principally the ‘old Yankee stock,’ who have lost the town, politically, to the Portuguese; who deplore the influx of the ‘off-Cape furriners’; and to whom a volume of genealogy is a piece of escape literature.”
—For the State of Massachusetts, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)