Famous quotes containing the words fort and/or repose:
“How often we read that the enemy occupied a position which commanded the old, and so the fort was evacuated! Have not the school-house and the printing-press occupied a position which commands such a fort as this?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves Repose and fatten.”
—Thomas Otway (1652–1685)