Famous quotes containing the words general, cemetery and/or company:
“The first general store opened on the ‘Cold Saturday’ of the winter of 1833 ... Mrs. Mary Miller, daughter of the store’s promoter, recorded in a letter: ‘Chickens and birds fell dead from their roosts, cows ran bellowing through the streets’; but she failed to state what effect the freeze had on the gala occasion of the store opening.”
—Administration in the State of Sout, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“I am a cemetery abhorred by the moon.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)
“More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery.”
—Thomas Traherne (1636–1674)