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• And new-laid eggs, which Baucis' busy care Turn'd by a gentle fire and roasted rare.
  -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book viii, Baucis and Philemon, Line 97...
• I was the first to dig the earth and make the rivers run backwards.
• The mightiest rivers lose their force when split up into several streams. -- Ovid
• Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks and rivers wide
  Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The cynosure of neighboring eyes....
• Little rivers which run into the Nile, Juveniles.
• How did the great rivers and seas gain dominion over the hundred lesser streams?
  By being lower than they. -- Lao Tzu...
• All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full. -- Ecclesiastes, i, 7
• Never let a panty line show around your ankles. -- Joan Rive
• Taking the line of least resistence makes both men and rivers crooked.