Famous quotes containing the words nat and/or port:
“I have swich love-longinge,
That lik a turtle trewe is my moorninge:
I may nat ete namore than a maide.””
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)
“When we think back to our forefathers, with their sedentary lives of forest-chopping, railroad-building, fortune-founding, their fox-hunting and Indian taming, their prancing about in the mazurka and the polka, with their coattails flying and their bustles bouncing, to say nothing of their all-day sessions with the port and straight bourbon,... we must realize that we are a nation, not of neurasthenics, but of sissies and slow-motion sports.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)
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