Lost Colony

Famous quotes containing the words lost and/or colony:

    Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Tall tales” were told of the sociability of the Texans, one even going so far as to picture a member of the Austin colony forcing a stranger at the point of a gun to visit him.
    —Administration in the State of Texa, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)