Famous quotes containing the words town and/or population:
“Haint we got all the fools in town on our side? and aint that a big enough majority in any town?”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)
“America is like one of those old-fashioned six-cylinder truck engines that can be missing two sparkplugs and have a broken flywheel and have a crankshaft thats 5000 millimeters off fitting properly, and two bad ball-bearings, and still runs. Were in that kind of situation. We can have substantial parts of the population committing suicide, and still run and look fairly good.”
—Thomas McGuane (b. 1939)
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