Famous quotes containing the words men, arrived and/or today:
“When men change swords for ledgers, and desert
The students bower for gold, some fears unnamed
I had, my Countryam I to be blamed?”
—William Wordsworth (17701850)
“A demanding stranger arrived one morning in a small town and asked a boy on the sidewalk of the main street, Boy, wheres the post office?
I dont know.
Well, then, where might the drugstore be?
I dont know.
How about a good cheap hotel?
I dont know.
Say, boy, you dont know much, do you?
No, sir, I sure dont. But I aint lost.”
—William Harmon (b. 1938)
“We have today and I could call their name
Who know exactly what is out of joint
To make their verse and their excuses lame.
Theyve tried to grasp with too much social fact
Too large a situation.”
—Robert Frost (18741963)