trip quotes

It is a standing insult tosportsmen to have to play undera rule which assumes that players intend to trip, hack and push their opponents, and to behave like cads of the most unscrupulous kidney. The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school.

- C(harles) B(urgess) Fry
  Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

I am making a little trip to N.Y. in the near future and we will have a little talk and you can explain your positon, altho the way I feel now if I saw you now your positon would be horizontle.

-John Henry O'Hara
  Pal Joey, ch.2.

He meant to gather for America an undreamed-of collection of art so great and complete that a trip to Europe would be superfluous.

- Aline Bernstein ne  e Loucheim Saarinen
On the philanthropist and collectorJohn Pierpont Morgan. In Antiques, Oct.

Artthe one achievement of Man which has made the long trip from all fours seem well advised.

-James Grover Thurber
  In Forum and Century magazine, Jun.

O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won, The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting.

-Walt(er) Whitman
  Leaves of Grass,'Memories of President Lincoln','O Captain! My Captain!'