Quaker State

Quaker State may refer to:

  • Pennsylvania, which is colloquially known as the Quaker State
  • The Quaker State Corporation, a manufacturer of motor oil and other lubricants as of 2006 known as SOPUS Products

Famous quotes containing the words quaker and/or state:

    “this old Quaker graveyard where the bones
    Cry out in the long night for the hurt beast
    Bobbing by Ahab’s whaleboats in the East.”
    —Robert Lowell (1917–1977)

    “The Reverend Samuel Peters ... exaggerated the Blue Laws, but they did include “Capital Lawes” providing a death penalty for any child over sixteen who was found guilty of cursing or striking his natural parents; a death penalty for an incorrigible son; a law forbidding smoking except in a room in a private house; another law declaring smoking illegal except on a journey five miles away from home,...”
    —Administration for the State of Con, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)