Cape Town Spurs

Famous quotes containing the words cape, town and/or spurs:

    “A great proportion of the inhabitants of the Cape are always thus abroad about their teaming on some ocean highway or other, and the history of one of their ordinary trips would cast the Argonautic expedition into the shade.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “This was the most completely maritime town that we were ever in. It was merely a good harbor, surrounded by land, dry if not firm,—an inhabited beach, whereon fishermen cured and stored their fish, without any back country.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day.
    Now spurs the lated traveller apace
    To gain the timely inn.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)