“The poor taxpayer may wipe his shoes on a $3 doormat when he goes home, but not the Navy. It is, damn the cost, full feet ahead on a doormat you would be ashamed to get muddy.”
William Proxmire
“You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.”
Ernest Hemingway
“Credit is like a looking - glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clean again; but if once cracked can never be repaired”
Sir Walter Scott
“I believe that he is wiping his muddy shoes on the face of victims, using them as the doormat as he leaves his office, ... It says much more about George Ryan than it does about the death penalty.”
Kevin Lyons
“And when we turn 18, the slate is wiped clean.”
Tim O'Neill
“When you're that many points behind and they wipe the slate clean, that's what I don't like.”
Darrell Waltrip
“Hurricane Katrina wasn't done when she unleashed her fury on America's Gulf Coast, wiping out New Orleans and devastating other coastal areas. She also dealt a severe body blow to consumer confidence across the board.”
Raghavan Mayur
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