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Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents has been always tragic, chiefly as an almost indecent excitement at first, and a worse reaction afterwards; but also because no mind is so well balanced as to bear the strain of seizing unlimited force without habit or knowledge of it; and finding it disputed with him by hungry packs of wolves and hounds whose lives depend on snatching the carion.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Henry Adams |

They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Desiderius Erasmus |

'Put the chair upon the grass: Bring Rody and his hounds, That I may contented pass From these earthly bounds.'

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | William Butler Yeats |

Lap-dogs and blood-hounds enjoy the greatest respect at court; house-dogs and no dogs at all are not even considered.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Franz Grillparzer |

"Put the chair upon the grass: Bring Rody and his hounds, That I may contented pass From these earthly bounds."

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | William Butler Yeats |