(Chicago) Hog Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation’s Freight Handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders.
Places Quotes
We had hardly got out of the streets of Bangor before I began to be exhilarated by the sight of the wild fir and spruce tops, and those of other primitive evergreens, peering through the mist in the horizon. It was like the sight and odor of cake to a schoolboy.
I was disappointed in Niagara-most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.
Rio is not a sexy town; it is a copulating town… Going to bed with women is almost a national hobby with Brazilians; it is rather like cricket in England.
Terrible Tragedy in the South Seas. Three million people trapped alive! (apocryphal newspaper headline, New Zealand Listener, April 1979)
As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his […]
There is nothing soft about New Zealand, the country. It is very hard and sinewy, and will outlast many of those who try to alter it.
You know Malta, where there is more magnificence than comfort.
Not as bad as you might have expected. (suggested state motto for New Jersey)
The only bad thing about Spokane is that there’s nothing to do after 10 in the morning.
