General Thunderbolt Ross

Famous quotes containing the words general, thunderbolt and/or ross:

    He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.
    Olympia Brown (1835–1900)

    The flame from the angel’s sword in the garden of Eden has been catalysed into the atom bomb; God’s thunderbolt became blunted, so man’s dunderbolt has become the steel star of destruction.
    Sean O’Casey (1884–1964)

    The New Yorker will be the magazine which is not edited for the old lady from Dubuque.
    —Harold W. Ross (1892–1951)