Lamp Post

Famous quotes containing the words lamp and/or post:

    “As one lamp lights another, nor grows less,
    So nobleness enkindleth nobleness.”
    —James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)

    “A demanding stranger arrived one morning in a small town and asked a boy on the sidewalk of the main street, “Boy, where’s the post office?”
    “I don’t know.”
    “Well, then, where might the drugstore be?”
    “I don’t know.”
    “How about a good cheap hotel?”
    “I don’t know.”
    “Say, boy, you don’t know much, do you?”
    “No, sir, I sure don’t. But I ain’t lost.””
    —William Harmon (b. 1938)