Rifle Green

Famous quotes containing the words rifle and/or green:

    At Hayes’ General Store, west of the cemetery, hangs an old army rifle, used by a discouraged Civil War veteran to end his earthly troubles. The grocer took the rifle as payment ‘on account.’
    —Administration for the State of Con, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    Gray, dear friend, is all theory,
    But green the golden tree of life.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)