Slippery Rock State

Famous quotes containing the words slippery, rock and/or state:

    My credit now stands on such slippery ground
    That one of two bad ways you must conceit me,
    Either a coward or a flatterer.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    Here is no water but only rock
    Rock and no water and the sandy road
    The road winding above among the mountains
    Which are mountains of rock without water
    If there were water we should stop and drink
    Amongst the rock one cannot stop or think
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    Here in England the welfare of the State depends on the conduct of our aristocracy.
    Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)