Famous quotes containing the words small and/or boat:
“A small garden, figs, a little cheese, and, along with this, three or four good friends—such was luxury to Epicurus.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“The utmost familiarity with dead streams, or with the ocean, would not prepare a man for this peculiar navigation; and the most skillful boatman anywhere else would here be obliged to take out his boat and carry round a hundred times, still with great risk, as well as delay, where the practiced batteau-man poles up with comparative ease and safety.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)