Richard H. Davis Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Creede is built of new pine boards and lies between two immense mountains covered with pines and snow.”

“I knew more about Texas than the Texans and when they told me I would find summer here I smiled knowingly.”

“I went out to the Derby on Wednesday and think it is the most interesting thing I ever saw over here.”

“I wish I was not such a very bad hand at languages. That is one thing I cannot do, that and ride.”

“All the fascination of King Solomon's Mines seems to be behind those great mountains and this I may add is a bit of advance work for mother, an entering wedge to my disappearing from sight for years and years in the Congo.”

“As soon as I landed at Malta I found that though I could go to Tunis I could not go away without being quarantined for ten days and if I remained in Malta I must stay a week.”

“Tonight I am going to take a party to the headquarters of the fire department, where I have a cinch on the captain, a very nice fellow, who is unusually grateful for something I wrote about him and his men. They are going to do the Still Alarm act for me.”

“You see, I'd not a very good place here; the fellows looked on me as a sort of special object of ridicule, on account of the hat and cane, walk, and so on, though I thought I'd got over that by this time.”