Rainy Lake City

Famous quotes containing the words rainy, lake and/or city:

    “It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London.”
    —Thomas De Quincey (1785–1859)

    “Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.”
    —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

    “What life is best?
    Courts are but only superficial schools
    To dandle fools:
    The rural parts are turned into a den
    Of savage men:
    And where ‘s a city from all vice so free,
    But may be termed the worst of all the three?”
    —Francis Bacon (1561–1626)