Famous quotes containing the words goose, creek and/or men:
“Call Tullia’s ape a marmasyte
And Leda’s goose a swan.”
—Unknown. Fara Diddle Dyno (l. 7–8)
“The only law was that enforced by the Creek Lighthorsemen and the U.S. deputy marshals who paid rare and brief visits; or the “two volumes of common law” that every man carried strapped to his thighs.”
—State of Oklahoma, U.S. relief program (1935-1943)
“After all that men could do had failed, the Martians were destroyed and humanity was saved by the littlest things which God in his wisdom had put upon this Earth.”
—Barré Lyndon (1896–1972)