West Point

Famous quotes containing the words west and/or point:

    “We were young, we were merry, we were very very wise,
    And the door stood open at our feast,
    When there passed us a woman with the West in her eyes,
    And a man with his back to the East.”
    —Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861–1907)

    “He left the name, at which the world grew pale,
    To point a moral, or adorn a tale.”
    —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)