Snake River Fine

Famous quotes containing the words snake, river and/or fine:

    “There’s a snake lurking in the grass.”
    —Virgil [Publius Vergilius Maro] (70–19 B.C.)

    “This ferry was as busy as a beaver dam, and all the world seemed anxious to get across the Merrimack River at this particular point, waiting to get set over,—children with their two cents done up in paper, jail-birds broke lose and constable with warrant, travelers from distant lands to distant lands, men and women to whom the Merrimack River was a bar.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Yet when the houre of thy designe
    To answer these fine things shall come,
    Speak not at large, say, I am thine;
    And then they have their answer home.”
    —George Herbert (1593–1633)