Famous quotes containing the words earl and/or rivers:
“Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“Poor shad! where is thy redress? When Nature gave thee instinct, gave she thee the heart to bear thy fate? Still wandering the sea in thy scaly armor to inquire humbly at the mouths of rivers if man has perchance left them free for thee to enter.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)