Mount Hope Avenue

Famous quotes containing the words mount, hope and/or avenue:

    A land of meanness, sophistry and mist.
    Each breeze from foggy mount and marshy plain
    Dilutes with drivel every drizzly brain.
    George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    “Lawk a mercy on me,
    This is none of I!

    “But if this be I,
    As I do hope it be,
    I have a little dog at home
    And he knows me;
    Mother Goose (fl. 17th–18th century. There was an old woman, as I’ve heard tell (l. 23–28)

    Only in America ... do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed platinum at the age of sixty, and walk up and down Collins Avenue in Florida in pedalpushers and mink stoles—and with opinions on every subject under the sun. It isn’t their fault they were given a gift like speech—look, if cows could talk, they would say things just as idiotic.
    Philip Roth (b. 1933)