Famous quotes containing the words town and/or clerk:
“It is an old saying in the town that most any fellow with a chaw in his jaw can sit on his front porch and spit down the chimney of a neighbors house.”
—Administration in the State of Ariz, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“A clerk ther was of Oxenford also
That unto logyk hadde longe ygo.
As leene was his hors as is a rake,
And he nas nat right fat, I undertake,
But looked holwe, and therto sobrely.”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?1400)
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