David Law Proudfit

David Law Proudfit (October 27, 1842 – February 23, 1897) was an American poet and lithographer, who also wrote under the pseudonym Peleg Arkwright.

Quotes

• A man sat on a rock and sought
  Refreshment from his thumb;
  A dinotherium wandered by
  And scared him some.
  His name was Smith. The kind of rock
  He sat upon was shale.
  One feature quite distinguished him—
  He had a tail.
  • Prehistoric Smith, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

• Nature abhors imperfect work
  And on it lays her ban;
  And all creation must despise
  A tailless man.
  • Prehistoric Smith, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).