Flood/benefits

Famous quotes containing the words flood and/or benefits:

    “Now in contiguous drops the flood comes down,
    Threat’ning with deluge this devoted town.
    To shops in crowds the daggled females fly,
    Pretend to cheapen goods, but nothing buy.”
    —Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)

    “One of the benefits of a college education is, to show the boy its little avail.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)