Stopping Place

Famous quotes containing the words stopping and/or place:

    Hamlet. To what base uses we may return, Horatio! Why may
    not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander, till a
    find it stopping a bung-hole?
    Horatio. ‘Twere to consider too curiously to consider so.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    The only asylum
    Was the poorhouse, and those who could afford,
    Rather than send their folks to such a place,
    Kept them at home; and it does seem more human.
    But it’s not so: the place is the asylum.
    There they have every means proper to do with,
    And you aren’t darkening other people’s lives....
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)