Famous quotes containing the words fir and/or lang:
“It is remarkable with what pure satisfaction the traveler in these woods will reach his camping-ground on the eve of a tempestuous night like this, as if he had got to his inn, and, rolling himself in his blanket, stretch himself on his six-feet-by-two bed of dripping fir twigs, with a thin sheet of cotton for roof, snug as a meadow-mouse in its nest.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Should auld acquaintance be forgot
And never brought to mind?
...
Well tak a cup okindness yet,
For auld lang syne.”
—Robert Burns (17591796)