Famous quotes containing the words boat and/or pits:
“When the boat reaches midstream, it is too late to mend the leaks.”
—Chinese proverb.
“And the glory of character is in affronting the horrors of depravity to draw thence new nobilities of power: as Art lives and thrills in new use and combining of contrasts, and mining into the dark evermore for blacker pits of night.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)