General Councils

Famous quotes containing the words general and/or councils:

“As a general rule, do not kick the shins of the opposite gentleman under the table, if personally unaquainted with him; your pleasantry is liable to be misunderstood—a circumstance at all times unpleasant.”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)

“In bridge clubs and in councils of state, the passions are the same.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)