Riches Class Martial

Famous quotes containing the words riches, class and/or martial:

“The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)

“There is still the feeling that women’s writing is a lesser class of writing, that ... what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, ... that what women know about is a less category of knowledge.”
—Erica Jong (b. 1942)

“Strike the concertina’s melancholy string!
Blow the spirit-stirring harp like any thing!
Let the piano’s martial blast
Rouse the Echoes of the Past,”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)