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)
“Against ill chances men are ever merry,
But heaviness foreruns the good event.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)