Obtained

Famous quotes containing the word obtained:

“Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.”
—James A. Garfield (1831–1881)

“For experience showed her that she had not, by marrying a man of a large fortune, obtained any great proportion of property which she could call her own or command at her pleasure.”
—Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)

“If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon’s mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the cannon is empty.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)