Big Oak Flat

Famous quotes containing the words big, oak and/or flat:

“She who marries for love marries well; she who marries for a big house does not.”
—Chinese proverb.

“Alas for America as I must so often say, the ungirt, the diffuse, the profuse, procumbent, one wide ground juniper, out of which no cedar, no oak will rear up a mast to the clouds! It all runs to leaves, to suckers, to tendrils, to miscellany. The air is loaded with poppy, with imbecility, with dispersion, & sloth.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“We may divide characters into flat and round.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)