Crosses Quote by Anonymous

Few are those among men who have crossed over to the other shore, while the rest of mankind runs along the bank. However those…

— Gautama Buddha

Few cross over the river. Most are stranded on this side. On the riverbank they run up and down. But the wise man, following…

— Gautama Buddha

There's magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers…

— Herman Melville

The world is full of banks and rivers running between them, of men and women crossing bridges and fords, unaware of the consequences, not…

— Arturo Pérez-Reverte

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of…

— Horace

Men in a ship are always looking up, and men ashore are usually looking down.

— John Masefield

The way is One and only One. The way is close at hand, but men seek it afar.

— Mencius

Men are afraid to rock the boat in which they hope to drift safely through life's currents, when, actually, the boat is stuck on…

— Thomas Szasz

Men as well as rivers grow crooked by following the path of least resistance.

— Thomas Jefferson

The habit of taking the line of least resistance makes all rivers and some men crooked.

— Napoleon Hill

There are some men whose only mission among others is to act as intermediaries; one crosses them like bridges and keeps going.

— Gustave Flaubert

But you might as well bid a man struggling in the water, rest within arm's length of the shore! I must reach it first,…

— Emily Bronte