Famous quotes containing the words town, meeting and/or form:
“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)
“Again, the great number of cultivated men keep each other up to a high standard. The habit of meeting well-read and knowing men teaches the art of omission and selection.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“In many places the road was in that condition called repaired, having just been whittled into the required semicylindrical form with the shovel and scraper, with all the softest inequalities in the middle, like a hogs back with the bristles up.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)