Georgia Marble Company

Famous quotes containing the words georgia, marble and/or company:

    “Being a Georgia author is a rather specious dignity, on the same order as, for the pig, being a Talmadge ham.”
    —Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)

    “In marble halls as white as milk,
    Lined with a skin as soft as silk,
    Within a fountain crystal-clear,
    A golden apple doth appear.
    No doors there are to this stronghold,
    Yet thieves break in and steal the gold.”
    —Mother Goose (fl. 17th–18th century. In marble walls as white as milk (Riddle: An Egg)

    “The company of women of fashion will improve your manners, though not your understanding; and that complaisance and politeness, which are so useful in men’s company, can only be acquired in women’s.”
    —Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)