Famous quotes containing the words maltese and/or islands:
“Well, Wilmer, Im sorry indeed to lose you. But I want you to know I couldnt be fonder of you if you were my own son. Well, if you lose a son its possible to get another. Theres only one Maltese falcon.”
—John Huston (19061987)
“Consider the islands bearing the names of all the saints, bristling with forts like chestnut-burs, or Echinidæ, yet the police will not let a couple of Irishmen have a private sparring- match on one of them, as it is a government monopoly; all the great seaports are in a boxing attitude, and you must sail prudently between two tiers of stony knuckles before you come to feel the warmth of their breasts.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)