Famous quotes containing the words alfred, shaker and/or village:
“Flash’d from his bed the electric tidings came,
He is no better, he is much the same.”
—Anonymous.
Parody of the style of poet laureate Alfred Austin (1835-1913)
“Of the Shaker society, it was formerly a sort of proverb in the country, that they always sent the devil to market.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.”
—Stanley Kubrick (b. 1928)