Branch Feather River

Famous quotes containing the words branch, feather and/or river:

    “The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.”
    —James Branch Cabell (1879–1958)

    “A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.”
    —Charles Lamb (1775–1834)

    “There are knives that glitter like altars
    In a dark church
    Where they bring the cripple and the imbecile
    To be healed.

    There’s a woden block where bones are broken,
    Scraped clean—a river dried to its bed”
    —Charles Simic (b. 1938)