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• It is a foolish man who tests the depth of the river with both feet at the same time.
  Often this person tests just one river....
• Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.
  -- Martin Friedma...
• Statistics always reminds me of the fellow who drowned in a river whose average depth was only three feet.
  -- Woody Hayes, Ohio State Football Coach...
• When you want to test the depths of a stream, don't use both feet. -- Chinese Proverb
• An egghead is one who stands firmly on both feet, in mid-air, on both sides of an issue.
  -- Homer Ferguso...
• Samuel Clemens's pseudonym comes from his days as a shiphand on the Mississippi.
  His duty was to check the depth of the river which was called "marking the twain....
• Standing with reluctant feet Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet!
  -- Henry W. Longfellow (1807-1882) -- Maidenhood...
• There is a river in Macedon; and there is also moreover a river at Monmouth
  ... and there is salmons in both. -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), King Henry V -- Act iv, Sc....