Shady Side Academy

Famous quotes containing the words shady, side and/or academy:

“Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.”
—Herodotus (c. 484–424 B.C.)

“One may confidently assert that when thirty thousand men fight a pitched battle against an equal number of troops, there are about twenty thousand on each side with the pox.”
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)

“When the State wishes to endow an academy or university, it grants it a tract of forest land: one saw represents an academy, a gang, a university.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)