Famous quotes containing the words middle, fort and/or ancient:
“Death cut the strings that gave me life,
And handed me to Sorrow,
The only kind of middle wife
My folks could beg or borrow.”
—Countee Cullen (19031946)
“No, no. God will not damn a lunatics soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those of us with weak minds.”
—Garrett Fort (19001945)
“It is worth the expense of youthful days and costly hours, if you learn only some words of an ancient language, which are raised out of the trivialness of the street, to be perpetual suggestions and provocations. It is not in vain that the farmer remembers and repeats the few Latin words which he has heard.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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