Upper Part

Famous quotes containing the words upper and/or part:

“The first to strike will gain the upper hand.”
—Chinese proverb.

“Sweet pliability of man’s spirit, that can at once surrender itself to illusions, which cheat expectation and sorrow of their weary moments!—long—long since had ye number’d out my days, had I not trod so great a part of them upon this enchanted ground.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)