Red Devil Team

Famous quotes containing the words red, devil and/or team:

“What journeyings on foot and on horseback through the wilderness, to preach the gospel to these minks and muskrats! who first, no doubt, listened with their red ears out of a natural hospitality and courtesy, and afterward from curiosity or even interest, till at length there “were praying Indians,” and, as the General Court wrote to Cromwell, the “work is brought to this perfection that some of the Indians themselves can pray and prophesy in a comfortable manner.””
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“We till shadowed days are done,
We must weep and sing
Duty’s conscious wrong,
The Devil in the clock,”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)

“Once a word is spoken, a team of four horse cannot retake it.”
—Chinese proverb.