Stranger

Famous quotes containing the word stranger:

“Robert Whitmore
died of apoplexy
when a stranger from Georgia
mistook him
for a former Macon waiter.”
—Frank Marshall Davis (b. 1905)

““Tall tales” were told of the sociability of the Texans, one even going so far as to picture a member of the Austin colony forcing a stranger at the point of a gun to visit him.”
—Administration in the State of Texa, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

“I knew very well that this hope was chimerical. I was like a pauper who mingles fewer tears with his dry bread if he tells himself that at any moment a stranger will bequeath to him his fortune. We must all, in order to make reality more tolerable, keep alive in us a few little follies.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)