Famous quotes containing the words snake, river and/or fine:
“People can be as greedy as a snake trying to swallow an elephant.”
—Chinese proverb.
“but we wish the river had another shore,
some further range of delectable mountains,”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)
“A new person is to me a great event, and hinders me from sleep. I have often had fine fancies about persons which have given me delicious hours; but the joy ends in the day; it yields no fruit.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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