Upper Black Eddy

Famous quotes containing the words upper, black and/or eddy:

    “The stately Homes of England,
    How beautiful they stand,
    To prove the upper classes
    Have still the upper hand.”
    —Noël Coward (1899–1973)

    “Yet I experienced sometimes that the most sweet and tender, the most innocent and encouraging society may be found in any natural object, even for the poor misanthrope and most melancholy man. There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of nature and has his senses still.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Is civilization only a higher form of idolatry, that man should bow down to a flesh-brush, to flannels, to baths, diet, exercise, and air?”
    —Mary Baker Eddy (1821–1910)