Famous quotes containing the words ducks and/or finished:
“For hours, in fall days, I watched the ducks cunningly tack and veer and hold the middle of the pond, far from the sportsman;... but what beside safety they got by sailing in the middle of Walden I do not know, unless they love its water for the same reason that I do.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Things often offer themselves to our mind in a more finished form in the very first thought, than we might have made them by much art and study.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)