Famous quotes containing the words warrant, officer and/or class:
“Heres to the maiden of bashful fifteen;
Heres to the widow of fifty;
Heres to the flaunting extravagant queen;
And heres to the housewife thats thrifty.
Let the toast pass,
Drink to the lass,
Ill warrant shell prove an excuse for the glass.”
—Richard Brinsley Sheridan (17511816)
“Thats all right, sir. A commanding officer doesnt need brains, just a good, loud voice.”
—Cyril Hume, and Fred McLeod Wilcox. Dr. Morbius (Walter Pidgeon)
“It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits; it is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician demonstrative proofs.”
—Aristotle (384323 B.C.)
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