Famous quotes containing the words smoky, mountain and/or high:
“O, he is as tedious
As a tired horse, a railing wife,
Worse than a smoky house.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“‘Tis distance lends enchantment to the view,
And robes the mountain in its azure hue.”
—Thomas Campbell (1777–1844)
“I affect no contempt for the high eminence he [Senator Stephen Douglas] has reached. So reached, that the oppressed of my species, might have shared with me in the elevation, I would rather stand on that eminence, than wear the richest crown that ever pressed a monarch’s brow.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)