Years Probation

Famous quotes containing the words years and/or probation:

    Today 23 years ago dear Grandmama died. I wonder what she would have thought of a Labour Government.
    George V (1865–1936)

    So that the life of a writer, whatever he might fancy to the contrary, was not so much a state of composition, as a state of warfare; and his probation in it, precisely that of any other man militant upon earth,—both depending alike, not half so much upon the degrees of his WIT—as his RESISTANCE.
    Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)