Steamer Basket

Famous quotes containing the words steamer and/or basket:

“Again we mistook a little rocky islet seen through the “drisk,” with some taller bare trunks or stumps on it, for the steamer with its smoke-pipes, but as it had not changed its position after half an hour, we were undeceived. So much do the works of man resemble the works of nature. A moose might mistake a steamer for a floating isle, and not be scared till he heard its puffing or its whistle.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Put all your eggs in the one basket and—WATCH THAT BASKET.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)