Mount Captain Commands

Famous quotes containing the words mount, captain and/or commands:

“Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech on conservation.”
—Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965)

“But that his wife should be one of the performers, that she should be gazed at by a crowd as she tripped about, and that, after all that had been said, she should be tripping in the arms of Captain De Baron, was almost more than he could endure.”
—Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)

“Unpaid work never commands respect ...”
—Harriot Stanton Blatch (1856–1940)