XIV Army

Famous quotes containing the words xiv and/or army:

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

    Here was a great woman; a magnificent, generous, gallant, reckless, fated fool of a woman. There was never a place for her in the ranks of the terrible, slow army of the cautious. She ran ahead, where there were no paths.
    Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)