Remonstrance Quotes

“The youthful stationmaster wore a Blue Spot on his uniform and remonstrated with the driver that the train was a minute late, and that he would have to file a report.

The driver retorted that since there could be no material differene between a train that arrived at a station and a station that arrived at a train, it was equally the staionmaster's fault.

The stationmaster replied that he could not be blamed, because he had no control over the speed of the station; to which the engine driver replied that the stationmaster could control its placement, and that if it were only a thousand yards closer to Vermillion, the problem would be solved.

To this the stationmaster replied that if the driver didn't accept the lateness as his fault, he would move the station a thousand yards farther from Vermillion and make him not just late, but demeritably overdue.”
― Jasper Fforde, Shades of Grey

“Servitude of any sort is distasteful to all men, but especially objectionable is subjection to others in the case of those who ought to rule.”
― Ulrich von Hutten, Ulrich von Hutten and the German Reformation

“OH! why those narrow rules extol?
These but restrain from ill,
True virtue lies in strength of soul
And energy of will.”
― James Joseph Sylvester, The Laws of Verse: Or Principles of Versification Exemplified in Metrical Translations