“Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast,
The rapids are near, and the daylight's past.”
A Canadian Boat-Song.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Thomas Moore 108
Irish poet, singer and songwriter 1779–1852Related quotes
Slightly misquoting Domingo Ortega, as translated by the English poet Robert Graves), in remarks during a Presidential Backgrounder before the National Foreign Policy Conference for Editors and Radio-TV Public Affairs Broadcasters (16 October 1962)]; "Presidential Backgrounder 16 October 1962 #50," Box 134, Classified Background Briefing Material Series, Pierre Salinger Papers, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library
The original poem: Bullfight critics ranked in rows
Crowd the enormous Plaza full
But only one is there who knows
And he's the man who fights the bull.
1962
“Governments steer better than they row.”
Source: The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998), Chapter Five, The Second Question: Charity and Welfare-The Old Debate Is New Again, p. 98
“Pray to God, but row away from the rocks.”
Variant: Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
“I came to see a king, not a row of corpses.”
After having visited the mausoleum of Alexander the Great in Alexandria, Augustus was asked if he also wanted to visit the mausoleum of the Ptolemies; in Suetonius, Divus Augustus, paragraph 16. Translation: Robert Graves, 1957.
“It's like winning Lotto 10 times in a row.”
"SMH Article 16 Feb 2007" http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/dead-luck-ewas-flight-of-fury/2007/02/16/1171405421626.html
Discussing Ewa Wisnierska's chances of surviving being sucked 32,000 feet into a cloud.