Devil Rays Traded

Famous quotes containing the words devil, rays and/or traded:

“In a Kelton church, when a heated argument once began at morning services, a devout old deacon arose from his seat in the ‘amen corner’ and announced he was going to do for the church what the devil had never done—leave it.”
—Administration in the State of Sout, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

“The rays which stream through the shutter will be no longer remembered when the shutter is wholly removed.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“When we traded the buffalo for a mare,
we had no milk to drink,
and we still had droppings to clean up.”
—Punjabi proverb, trans. by Gurinder Singh Mann.