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"Time is like a river. It flows one direction, But with a little force you can go back. But like a river, Everything you do has a ripple." »Kevin R. Hutson
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"Heraclitus says you cannot step into the same river twice. We can also say that the same river cannot touch us twice!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the nile for her floods or the sea for her waves." »Marquis de Sade
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"The power of the river is to flow wildly! The power of the lake is to think calmly! Wise man both flows like a river and thinks lake a lake!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the nile, and then given his body to the dogs." »Henry David Thoreau
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"No, 'tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of nile, whose breath Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie All corners of the world." »William Shakespeare
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"You cannot step twice into the same river." »Heraclitus, In Plato, Cratylus
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"It is pleasant to have been to a place the way a river went." »Henry David Thoreau
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"Denial ain't just a river in Egypt." »Mark Twain
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"You could not step twice into the same river for other waters are ever flowing on to you." »Heraclitus
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"You can never step into the same river for new waters are always flowing on to you." »Heraclitus
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"You could not step twice into the same river; for other waters are ever flowing on to you." »Heraclitus, On the Universe
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"Let us cross the river, and rest under the trees." »Thomas Jonathan [Stonewall] Jackson, last words, 10 May 1863.
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"If you sit by the river long enough, you will see the body of your enemy float by." »Japanese Proverb, Also quoted in the movie Rising Sun
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"Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river." »Nikita Khrushchev
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"If you ever drop your keys into a river of molten lava, let 'em go, because, man, they're gone." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Do not insult the mother alligator until after you have crossed the river." »Haitian Proverb
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"Hatred is toxic waste in the river of life." »Micron
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"The trees reflected in the river -- they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we." »Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"Politicians are the same the world over: they promise to build a bridge even when there is no river." »Nikita Khrushchev
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"Enough shovels of earth ..........................a mountain. Enough pails of water ...............................a river." »Chinese Proverb
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"You have to sit by the side of a river for a *very* long time before a roast duck will fly into your mouth." »Guy Kawasaki
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"Till last by Philip's farm I flowTo join the brimming river,For men may come and men may go,But I go on for ever." »Alfred Lord Tennyson
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"He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses." »Horace
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"Only when the last tree has been cut down
Only when the last river has been poisoned
Only when the last fish has been caught
Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten." »Cree Indian Prophecy
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"Only after the last tree has been cut down, Only after the last river has been poisoned, Only after the last fish has been caught, Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten." »Cree Indian Prophecy
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"What is it that makes a complete stranger dive into an icy river to save a solid-gold baby Maybe we'll never know." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"That man has missed something who has never left a brothel at sunrise feeling like throwing himself into the river out of pure disgust." »Gustave Flaubert
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"Better than power over all the earth, better than going to heaven and better than dominion over the worlds is the joy of the man who enters the river of life that leads to Non-Being." »The Dhammapada
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"Weak men gain their object when allied with strong associates: the brook reaches the ocean by the river?s aid." »Magha
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