West Long Branch

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

    Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is.
    —Rebecca West (1892–1983)

    It is surprising with what impunity and comfort one who has always lain in a warm bed in a close apartment, and studiously avoided drafts of air, can lie down on the ground without a shelter, roll himself in a blanket, and sleep before a fire, in a frosty autumn night, just after a long rain-storm, and even come soon to enjoy and value the fresh air.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    That man’s the true Conservative
    Who lops the mouldered branch away.
    Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)