Famous quotes containing the words wind, river and/or valley:
“Falstaff. What wind blew you hither, Pistol?
Pistol. Not the ill wind which blows no man to good.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“My favorite figure of the American author is that of a man who breeds a favorite dog, which he throws into the Mississippi River for the pleasure of making a splash. The river does not splash, but it drowns the dog.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)
“There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet
As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet;”
—Thomas Moore (1779–1852)