Famous quotes containing the words american and/or general:
“The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.”
—Edith Wharton (1862–1937)
“In truth, a mature man who uses hair-oil, unless medicinally, that man has probably got a quoggy spot in him somewhere. As a general rule, he can’t amount to much in his totality.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)