Honourable Stanley Jackson

Famous quotes containing the words honourable, stanley and/or jackson:

    We mustn’t complain too much of being comedians—it’s an honourable profession. If only we could be good ones the world might gain at least a sense of style. We have failed—that’s all. We are bad comedians, we aren’t bad men.
    Graham Greene (1904–1991)

    Your absence has gone through me
    Like thread through a needle.
    —William Stanley Merwin (b. 1927)

    [Government’s] true strength consists in leaving individuals and states as much as possible to themselves—in making itself felt, not in its power, but in its beneficence, not in its control, but in its protection, not in binding the states more closely to the center, but leaving each to move unobstructed in its proper orbit.
    —Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)