Famous quotes containing the words john and/or rivers:
“Oh for some honest lover’s ghost,
Some kind unbodied post
Sent from the shades below!
I strangely long to know
Whether the nobler chaplets wear
Those that their mistress’ scorn did bear,
Or those that were used kindly.”
—Sir John Suckling (1609–1642)
“It is easier to move rivers and mountains than to change a person’s basic nature.”
—Chinese proverb.