Constable John Stevens

Famous quotes containing the words constable, john and/or stevens:

    “The right eloquence needs no bell to call the people together, and no constable to keep them.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Take heed of enemies reconciled, and of meat twice boiled.”
    —Collected in John Ray, English Proverbs. English proverb (1670)

    “A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)