Famous quotes containing the words smooth and/or plains:
“From Rumor’s tongues
They bring smooth comforts false, worse than true wrongs.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“The Plains are not forgiving. Anything that is shallow—the easy optimism of a homesteader; the false hope that denies geography, climate, history; the tree whose roots don’t reach ground water—will dry up and blow away.”
—Kathleen Norris (b. 1947)