Rural Highway Passing

Famous quotes containing the words rural, highway and/or passing:

    “Some bring a capon, some a rural cake,
    Some nuts, some apples; some that think they make
    The better cheeses bring ‘em, or else send
    By their ripe daughters, whom they would commend
    This way to husbands, and whose baskets bear
    An emblem of themselves in plum or pear.”
    —Ben Jonson (1572–1637)

    “The highway leads to Heaven, but each finds his own way.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “There is no Champollion to decipher the Egypt of every man’s and every being’s face. Physiognomy, like every other human science, is but a passing fable.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)