Thief River Falls

Famous quotes containing the words thief, river and/or falls:

“The thief steals from himself. The swindler swindles himself. For the real price is knowledge and virtue, whereof wealth and credit are signs. These signs, like paper money, may be counterfeited or stolen, but that which they represent, namely, knowledge and virtue, cannot be counterfeited or stolen.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“The river sweats
Oil and tar
The barges drift
With the turning tide”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

“He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.”
—Thomas Fuller (1608–1661)