Seat Remained Vacant

Famous quotes containing the words seat, remained and/or vacant:

    “They have thrown away her electric toothbrush, someone else slips
    The key into the lock of her safety-deposit box
    At the Crocker-Anglo Bank; her seat at the cricket matches
    Is warmed by buttocks less delectable than hers.”
    —Randall Jarrell (1914–1965)

    “In early times every sort of advantage tends to become a military advantage; such is the best way, then, to keep it alive. But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious. For that we care for them; from that have issued endless consequences.”
    —Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)

    “Every time I bestow a vacant office I make a hundred discontented persons and one ingrate.”
    —Louis XIV (1638–1715)