Famous quotes containing the words greater, metropolitan and/or area:
“Hes a fool that marries, but hes a greater that does not marry a fool; what is wit in a wife good for, but to make a man a cuckold?”
—William Wycherley (16401716)
“In metropolitan cases, the love of the most single-eyed lover, almost invariably, is nothing more than the ultimate settling of innumerable wandering glances upon some one specific object.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)
“During the Civil War the area became a refuge for service- dodging Texans, and gangs of bushwhackers, as they were called, hid in its fastnesses. Conscript details of the Confederate Army hunted the fugitives and occasional skirmishes resulted.”
—Administration in the State of Texa, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
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