York State Fire

Famous quotes containing the words york, state and/or fire:

    “There is a small steam engine in his brain which not only sets the cerebral mass in motion, but keeps the owner in hot water.”
    —Unknown. New York Weekly Mirror (July 5, 1845)

    “The society would permit no books of fiction in its collection because the town fathers believed that fiction ‘worketh abomination and maketh a lie.’”
    —For the State of Rhode Island, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    “O none but gods have power their love to hide,
    Affection by the count’nance is descride.
    The light of hidden fire it selfe discovers,
    And love that is conceal’d, betraies poore lovers.”
    —Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593)