Famous quotes containing the words perry, oaks and/or farm:
“Youll admit theres always the possibility of some employee becoming disgruntled over some fancied injustice. Dissatisfaction always leads to temptation. Theres always purchasers for valuable secrets.”
—Joseph ODonnell. Clifford Sanforth. Donald Jordan, Murder by Television, trying to bribe Perry into revealing Professor Houghlands secret (1935)
“He that depends
Upon your favors swims with fins of lead,
And hews down oaks with rushes.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“What is a farm but a mute gospel? The chaff and the wheat, weeds and plants, blight, rain, insects, sunit is a sacred emblem from the first furrow of spring to the last stack which the snow of winter overtakes in the fields.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
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