Famous quotes containing the words fort, plain and/or village:
“No, no. God will not damn a lunatic’s soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those of us with weak minds.”
—Garrett Fort (1900–1945)
“Women are hard and proud and stubborn-hearted,
Their heads being turned with praise and flattery;
And that is why their lovers are afraid
To tell them a plain story.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“The next forenoon we went to Oldtown.... The Indian is said to cultivate the vices rather than the virtues of the white man. Yet this village was cleaner than I expected, far cleaner than such Irish villages as I have seen.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)