Suitable Girl

Famous quotes containing the words suitable and/or girl:

    “Who should come to my lodge this morning but a true Homeric or Paphlagonian man,—he had so suitable and poetic a name that I am sorry I cannot print it here,—a Canadian, a woodchopper and post-maker, who can hole fifty posts in a day, who made his last supper on a woodchuck which his dog caught.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    ““My faith and troth I give back to thee,
    So may thy soul have rest.””
    —Unknown. The Brown Girl (l. 51–52)