York Fire Police

Famous quotes containing the words york, fire and/or police:

    “The American who has been confined, in his own country, to the sight of buildings designed after foreign models, is surprised on entering York Minster or St. Peter’s at Rome, by the feeling that these structures are imitations also,—faint copies of an invisible archetype.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “The day’s at end and there’s nowhere to go,
    Draw to the fire, even this fire is dying;
    Get up and once again politely lying
    Invite the ladies toward the mistletoe....”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    “Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.”
    —Karl Kraus (1874–1936)