Upper Post Road

Famous quotes containing the words upper, post and/or road:

    ““All men live in suffering
    I know as few can know,
    Whether they take the upper road
    Or stay content on the low....””
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “A demanding stranger arrived one morning in a small town and asked a boy on the sidewalk of the main street, “Boy, where’s the post office?”
    “I don’t know.”
    “Well, then, where might the drugstore be?”
    “I don’t know.”
    “How about a good cheap hotel?”
    “I don’t know.”
    “Say, boy, you don’t know much, do you?”
    “No, sir, I sure don’t. But I ain’t lost.””
    —William Harmon (b. 1938)

    “Time is a horse that runs in the heart, a horse
    Without a rider on a road at night.
    The mind sits listening and hears it pass.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)