Famous quotes containing the words atlas, era and/or tales:
“A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thin book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Ireland is where strange tales begin and happy endings are possible.”
—Charles Haughey (b. 1925)