Saint Joseph River

Famous quotes containing the words saint, joseph and/or river:

    “There’s so much saint in the worst of them,
    And so much devil in the best of them,
    That a woman who’s married to one of them,
    Has nothing to learn of the rest of them.”
    —Helen Rowland (1875–1950)

    “Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot, and flee.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Hard by the lilied Nile I saw
    A duskish river dragon stretched along.
    The brown habergeon of his limbs enamelled
    With sanguine alamandines and rainy pearl:
    And on his back there lay a young one sleeping,
    No bigger than a mouse;”
    —Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803–1849)