West Branch Feather

Famous quotes containing the words west, branch and/or feather:

“There is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavour and then leave it half done. This is what the West has done with its colonial system. It shook all the societies in the world loose from their old moorings. But it seems indifferent whether or not they reach safe harbour in the end.”
—Barbara Ward (1914–1981)

“The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.”
—James Branch Cabell (1879–1958)

“Was ever feather so lightly blown to and fro as this multitude?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)