Porter

Famous quotes containing the word porter:

    Do you think the porter and the cook have no anecdotes, no experiences, no wonders for you? Every body knows as much as the savant. The walls of rude minds are scrawled all over with facts, with thoughts. They shall one day bring a lantern and read the inscriptions.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not.
    —Katherine Anne Porter (1890–1980)

    When other friendships have been forgot,
    Ours will still be hot.
    —Cole Porter (1893–1964)