Beautiful Joe was a dog from the town of Meaford, Ontario, whose story inspired the bestselling 1893 novel Beautiful Joe, which contributed to worldwide awareness of animal cruelty.
Read more about Beautiful Joe: The Real Beautiful Joe, Fame and Legacy, Connection With Black Beauty
Famous quotes containing the words beautiful and/or joe:
“Bright lameness from my beautiful disease,
You have your destiny to chip and eat.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“While we were thus engaged in the twilight, we heard faintly, from far down the stream, what sounded like two strokes of a woodchopper’s axe, echoing dully through the grim solitude.... When we told Joe of this, he exclaimed, “By George, I’ll bet that was a moose! They make a noise like that.” These sounds affected us strangely, and by their very resemblance to a familiar one, where they probably had so different an origin, enhanced the impression of solitude and wildness.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)