Island Rough Riders

Famous quotes containing the words island, rough and/or riders:

    “An island always pleases my imagination, even the smallest, as a small continent and integral portion of the globe. I have a fancy for building my hut on one. Even a bare, grassy isle, which I can see entirely over at a glance, has some undefined and mysterious charm for me.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Such is the fate of simple Bard,
    On life’s rough ocean luckless starr’d:”
    —Robert Burns (1759–1796)

    “Good swimmers drown and good riders get thrown.”
    —Chinese proverb.