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Letter "C" » Crossing the river
«Only when you have crossed the river can you say the crocodile has a lump on his snout»
Author: Ashanti Proverb
| Keywords:
crocodile, crocodiles, crossed, Crossing the river, lump, lumped, lumps, snout, The Crocodile, The Crocodiles, The River
«Don't call the alligator big mouth till you have crossed the river»
«Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river»
Author: Cordell Hull
(Secretary)
| Keywords:
alligator, alligators, crossed, Crossing the river, The River
«The bridges that you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren't there.»
«Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees»
«It is not best to swap horses while crossing the river»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| Keywords:
crossing, Crossing the, Crossing the river, horses, river, river horse, swap, swapping, The River
«I do not allow myself to suppose that either the convention or the League have concluded to decide that I am either the greatest or the best man in America, but rather they have concluded it is not best to swap horses while crossing the river, and ha»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
concluded, Crossing the, Crossing the river, league, river horse, swap, swapping, The Best Man, the Convention
«WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction that strikes hard.Should you ask me whence this laughter, Whence this audible big-smiling, With its labial extension, With its maxillar distortion And its diaphragmic rhythmus Like the billowing of an ocean, Like the shaking of a carpet, I should answer, I should tell you: From the great deeps of the spirit, From the unplummeted abysmus Of the soul this laughter welleth As the fountain, the gug-guggle, Like the river from the canon [sic], To entoken and give warning That my present mood is sunny. Should you ask me further question -- Why the great deeps of the spirit, Why the unplummeted abysmus Of the soule extrudes this laughter, This all audible big-smiling, I should answer, I should tell you With a white heart, tumpitumpy, With a true tongue, honest Injun: William Bryan, he has Caught It, Caught the Whangdepootenawah!Is't the sandhill crane, the shankank, Standing in the marsh, the kneedeep, Standing silent in the kneedeep With his wing-tips crossed behind him And his neck close-reefed before him, With his bill, his william, buried In the down upon his bosom, With his head retracted inly, While his shoulders overlook it? Does the sandhill crane, the shankank, Shiver grayly in the north wind, Wishing he had died when little, As the sparrow, the chipchip, does? No 'tis not the Shankank standing, Standing in the gray and dismal Marsh, the gray and dismal kneedeep. No, 'tis peerless William Bryan Realizing that he's Caught It, Caught the Whangdepootenawah!»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
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«Only the man who crosses the river at night knows the value of the light of day»
Author: Chinese Proverbs
| About:
Value
| Keywords:
crosses, Crossing the river, river, The Light of Day, The River
«Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.»
Author: Horace
(Poet)
| Keywords:
cross, Crossing the river, non, realm, river, River Went, run up, shore, The Path, The River, up and down
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