River Quotes

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away. (Marcus Aurelius)
You cannot step into the same river twice. View quote
Heraclitus
You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own. View quote
Antonio Porchia
From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no man lives forever, That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea. View quote
Algernon Charles Swinburne
You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it. View quote
Paulo Coelho
It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves. View quote
Thornton Wilder
Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea. View quote
Mikhail Lermontov
He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses. View quote
Horace
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim." View quote
Lyndon B. Johnson
Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him? (Blaise Pascal)
How lovely the little river is, with its dark changing wavelets It seems to me like a living companion while I wander along the bank, and listen to its low, placid voice . . . View quote
George Eliot
. . . there was no gleam, no shadow, for the heavens, too, were one still, pale cloud no sound or motion in anything but the dark river that flowed and moaned like an unresting sorrow. View quote
George Eliot
Standing with reluctant feet Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Some folks like to get awayTake a holiday from the neighborhoodHop a flight to Miami BeachOr to HollywoodBut I'm talking a GreyhoundOn the Hudson River LineI'm in a New York state of mind. View quote
Billy Joel
I never set fire to a piano. I'd like to have got away with it, though. I pushed a couple of them in the river. They wasn't any good. View quote
Jerry Lee Lewis
Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river. View quote
Cordell Hull
Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. View quote
Francis Bacon
I've often wish'd that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year A handsome house to lodge a friend A river at my garden's end A terrace walk, and half a rood Of land set out to plant a wood. View quote
Jonathan Swift
Dip him in the river who loves water. View quote
William Blake
Over the river, and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go; The horse knows the way, To carry the sleigh, Through the white and drifted snow. (Lydia Maria Child)
Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep The river glideth at his own sweet will Dear God the very houses seem asleep And all that mighty heart is lying still. View quote
William Wordsworth
Fresh pitsand, however, in spite of all its excellence in concrete structures, is not equally useful in stucco, the richness of which, when the lime and straw are mixed with such sand, will cause it to crack as it dries on account of the great strength of the mixture. But river sand, though useless in "signinum" on account of its thinness, becomes perfectly solid in stucco when thoroughly worked by means of polishing instruments. View quote
Vitruvius
While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river; only the landscape on either bank seems to change. View quote
Max Müller
We catched fish, and talked, and we took a swim now and then to keep off sleepiness. It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big still river, laying on our backs looking up at the stars, and we didn't ever feel like talking loud, and it warn't often that we laughed, only a kind of low chuckle. We had mighty good weather, as a general thing, and nothing ever happened to us at all, that night, nor the next, nor the next. View quote
Mark Twain
📖 River Proverbs