Category Archives: Poets, Authors, & Writers

Quotes from poets, authors, or other writers

Week 498

“Instead of water we got here a draught of beer… a lumberer’s drink, which would acclimate and naturalize a man at once – which would make him see green, and, if he slept, dream that he heard the wind sough among the pines.”

-Henry David Thoreau

Week 468

“When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.”

-Mark Twain