Sylvester Local

Famous quotes containing the words sylvester and/or local:

    On this I ponder where’er I wander,
    And thus grow fonder, sweet Cork, of thee;
    With thy bells of Shandon,
    —Francis Sylvester Mahony (1805–1866)

    While it may not heighten our sympathy, wit widens our horizons by its flashes, revealing remote hidden affiliations and drawing laughter from far afield; humor, in contrast, strikes up fellow feeling, and though it does not leap so much across time and space, enriches our insight into the universal in familiar things, lending it a local habitation and a name.
    —Marie Collins Swabey. Comic Laughter, ch. 5, Yale University Press (1961)