Robin Hood Legend

Famous quotes containing the words robin hood, robin, hood and/or legend:

“It is now many years that men have resorted to the forest for fuel and the materials of the arts: the New Englander and the New Hollander, the Parisian and the Celt, the farmer and Robin Hood, Goody Blake and Harry Gill; in most parts of the world, the prince and the peasant, the scholar and the savage, equally require still a few sticks from the forest to warm them and cook their food. Neither could I do without them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“It’s June in January because I’m in love.”
—Leo Robin (1900–1984)

“A certain portion of the human race
Has certainly a taste for being diddled.”
—Thomas Hood (1799–1845)

“This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.”
—Willis Goldbeck (1900–1979)