Fair Haven

Famous quotes containing the words fair haven, fair and/or haven:

    “The sturdy Irish arms that do the work are of more worth than oak or maple. Methinks I could look with equanimity upon a long street of Irish cabins, and pigs and children reveling in the genial Concord dirt; and I should still find my Walden Wood and Fair Haven in their tanned and happy faces.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “A fellow almost damned in a fair wife.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir
    Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine,”
    —John Masefield (1878–1967)