Toss Power Trap

Famous quotes containing the words toss, power and/or trap:

    “There, do not start,
    child, nor toss about;
    only calm and high pride
    can help your hurt:
    fate tries all alike.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    “When petty people get into power they consider themselves unexcelled in the world.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “All Coolidge had to do in 1924 was to keep his mean trap shut, to be elected. All Harding had to do in 1920 was repeat “Avoid foreign entanglements.” All Hoover had to do in 1928 was to endorse Coolidge. All Roosevelt had to do in 1932 was to point to Hoover.”
    —Robert E. Sherwood (1896–1955)