Basket Boats

Famous quotes containing the words basket and/or boats:

    Warmest climes but nurse the cruelest fangs: the tiger of Bengal crouches in spiced groves of ceaseless verdure. Skies the most effulgent but basket the deadliest thunders: gorgeous Cuba knows tornadoes that never swept tame northern lands.
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    Fortune brings in some boats that are not steer’d.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)