Pan American Union

Famous quotes containing the words pan, american and/or union:

    I can’t accept “our nervous age,” since mankind has been nervous during every age. Whoever fears nervousness should turn into a sturgeon or smelt; if a sturgeon makes a stupid mistake, it can only be one: to end up on a hook, and then in a pan in a pastry shell.
    Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)

    The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air.
    Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)

    The best philosophical attitude to adopt towards the world is a union of the sarcasm of gaiety with the indulgence of contempt.
    —Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort (1741–1794)