American Oar Blade

Famous quotes containing the words american, oar and/or blade:

    “The American man is a very simple and cheap mechanism. The American woman I find a complicated and expensive one. Contrasts of feminine types are possible. I am not absolutely sure that there is more than one American man.”
    —Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)

    “There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love—every man works his oar voluntarily!”
    —St. Francis De Sales (1567–1622)

    “I would not knock old fellows in the dust
    But there lay Captain Carpenter on his back
    His weapons were the old heart in his bust
    And a blade shook between rotten teeth alack.”
    —John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974)