Fort Smith Public

Famous quotes containing the words fort, smith and/or public:

    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)

    As Nature is always careless and indifferent
    Who sees, who steps, means nothing and this is pretty.
    —Stevie Smith (1902–1971)

    The public is a hibernating bear, hard to awaken and fond of honey.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)