North Fair Oaks

Famous quotes containing the words north, fair and/or oaks:

    “Come see the north wind’s masonry.
    Out of an unseen quarry evermore
    Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer
    Curves his white bastions with projected roof”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “A fair feeld ful of folk fand I there-betwene,
    Of alle maner of men, the mene and the riche,
    Worching and wandringe as the world asketh.
    Some putte hem to plow, playede ful selde,
    In setting and sowing swunke ful harde,
    Wonne that these wastours with glotonye destroyeth.”
    —William Langland (1330–1400)

    “He that depends
    Upon your favors swims with fins of lead,
    And hews down oaks with rushes.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)