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• The Siddhartha Principle: You cannot cross a river in two strides.
• You cannot cross a river in two strides. -- The Siddhartha Principle
• Gautama Principle: You cannot cross a river in two leaps.
• True enough, you can not cross the bridge till you come to i
  but it is well in this world of constant uncertainty, to keep an extra pontoon or two handy, just in case you get to a river without a bridge....
• You know you should be swimming when . . . At home, you close all the drapes, take off your clothes and don a pair of swim fins.
• I hope when you know the owrst you will at once leap into the river and swim through handsomely, and not, weather-beaten by the divers blasts of irresolution, stand shivering on the bank.
  -- Suckling...
• Can Harrison Ford the river?
• The tide comes in and the tide goes out, and what have you got?
• If a chicken and a half can lay and egg and a half in a day and a half on a nest and half
  how long will it take a little old red rooster sitting on a solid brass door knob to hatch a hardware store if the train is going East at forty miles an hour and the river is rising at six inches per hour in a strong cross wind?...