We must keep in mind the story of the statistician who drowned while trying to wade across a river with an average depth of four feet.

Mr. Smith was an art-ist, as well as an in-vent-or, and he paint-ed a pic-ture of a riv-er which was so nat-ur-al that, as he was reach-ing a-cross it to paint some flow-ers on the op-po-site bank, he fell in-to the wa-ter and was drowned.

No one will ever forget that night, and what it meant for this country. But I will never forget the man and what he meant to me.

You see a man drowning, you must try to save him even if you cannot swim.

Then Hamilcar … was drowned in 228 B.C. while crossing a stream with a herd of elephants.

a great man is gone. Tall as the truth was who; and wore his ... life like a ... sky.

A man may be down, but he is never out.

You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope.

No man ever steps in the same river twice. For it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river, and it's not the same man.

Here is one of my favorite @nntaleb quotes: "Don't cross a river if it is four feet deep on average."

Here lies one whose name was writ in water.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man.