Famous quotes containing the words williams, bishop and/or treaty:
“the sea is circled and sways
peacefully upon its plantlike stem”
—William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)
“Passing through here in 1795, Bishop Asbury commented, ‘The country improves in cultivation, wickedness, mills, and stills.’ Five years later, he held a meeting in the neighborhood and remarked that he thought most of the congregation had come to look at his wig.”
—Administration in the State of Sout, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)