Times Occasional Paper

Famous quotes containing the words times, occasional and/or paper:

    These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
    Thomas Paine (1737–1809)

    During the Civil War the area became a refuge for service- dodging Texans, and gangs of bushwhackers, as they were called, hid in its fastnesses. Conscript details of the Confederate Army hunted the fugitives and occasional skirmishes resulted.
    —Administration in the State of Texa, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of the brain awe a man from the career of his humor? No, the world must be peopled.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)