Joined City Country

Famous quotes containing the words joined, city and/or country:

    “You can’t appreciate home till you’ve left it, money till it’s spent, your wife till she’s joined a woman’s club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.”
    —O. Henry [William Sydney Porter] (1862–1910)

    “The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier: the manners and habits of a duke would cost a city clerk his situation.”
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

    “It is wonderful how well watered this country is.... Generally, you may go any direction in a canoe, by making frequent but not very long portages.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)