Flushing Main Street

Famous quotes containing the words main and/or street:

“Yours of the 24th, asking “the best mode of obtaining a thorough knowledge of the law” is received. The mode is very simple, though laborious, and tedious. It is only to get the books, and read, and study them carefully.... Work, work, work, is the main thing.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

“There was an Old Man who supposed,
That the street door was partially closed;”
—Edward Lear (1812–1888)