North Fork Feather

Famous quotes containing the words north, fork and/or feather:

    “Refinement’s origin:
    the remote north country’s
    rice-planting song.”
    —Matsuo Basho (1644–1694)

    “Eye of newt and toe of frog,
    Wool of bat and tongue of dog,
    Adder’s fork and blind-worm’s sting,
    Lizard’s leg and owlet’s wing,
    For a charm of powerful trouble,
    Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “A feather bed had every man,
    Warm slippers and hot-water can,
    Brown windsor from the captain’s store,
    A valet, too, to every four.”
    —Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)