Famous quotes containing the words port and/or town:
“When we think back to our forefathers, with their sedentary lives of forest-chopping, railroad-building, fortune-founding, their fox-hunting and Indian taming, their prancing about in the mazurka and the polka, with their coattails flying and their bustles bouncing, to say nothing of their all-day sessions with the port and straight bourbon,... we must realize that we are a nation, not of neurasthenics, but of sissies and slow-motion sports.”
—Robert Benchley (18891945)
“This was the most completely maritime town that we were ever in. It was merely a good harbor, surrounded by land, dry if not firm,an inhabited beach, whereon fishermen cured and stored their fish, without any back country.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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