Famous quotes containing the words bear, lake and/or county:
“The time of universal peace is near.
Prove this a prosp’rous day, the three-nooked world
Shall bear the olive freely.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“It would astonish if not amuse, the older citizens of your County who twelve years ago knew me a stranger, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working on a flat boat—at ten dollars per month to learn that I have been put down here as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)