Alan Coren Quotes, Water Quotes, Age Quotes

There are many mysteries in old age but the greatest, surely, is this: in those adverts for walk-in bathtubs, why doesn't all the water gush out when you get in?

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People look like rivers very much: water is everywhere the same, but the rivers are narrow, fast, wide, pure, cold, muddy and warm. The people are the same. They have the rudiment of every human habit in them and they behave according to them. Sometimes they even do not look like themselves, but they still stay whatever they are.

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Rivers Quotes , Water Quotes

They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Men Quotes , Water Quotes

Cease thy counsel, for thy words fall into my ears as priceless as water into a seive.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Fall Quotes , Water Quotes

The mind is like a river. The thoughts are like the various droplets of water. We are submerged in that water. Stay on the bank and watch your mind.

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Tags : A. G. Mohan Quotes , Rivers Quotes , Water Quotes

Water cannot rise higher than its source, neither can human reason.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Water Quotes , Reason Quotes

To fish in troubled waters.

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The sewer is the conscience of the city.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Cities Quotes , Water Quotes

By a divine instinct, men's minds mistrust ensuing danger; as, by proof, we see the waters swell before a boisterous storm.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Men Quotes , Water Quotes

In the beginning, compassion is like the seed without which we cannot have any fruit; in the middle, compassion is like water to nourish the see we have planted; in the end, compassion is like the warmth of the sun that brings the fruit to ripening.

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Compassion Quotes , Water Quotes

There was a piece of ornamental water immediately below the parapet, on the other side, into which Mr. James Harthouse had a very strong inclination to pitch Mr. Thomas Gradgrind Junior.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Strong Quotes , Water Quotes

The body is only a tool of the mind. What the mind dictates the body will have to obey. Now I do not even think of water. I do not miss it at all.... I see I can do anything.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Water Quotes

A boat may stay in water, but water should not stay in boat. A spiritual aspirant may live in the world, but the world should not live within him.

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Tags : Ramakrishna Quotes , Spiritual Quotes , Water Quotes

a wild dedication of yourselves To undiscovered waters, undreamed shores.

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Salamander: Originally a reptile inhabiting fire; later, an anthropomorphous immortal, but still a pyrophile. Salamanders are now believed to be extinct, the last one of which we have an account having been seen in Carcassonne by the Abbe Belloc, who exorcised it with a bucket of holy water.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Fire Quotes , Water Quotes

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Water Quotes , Taoism Quotes

Nothing on earth is so weak and yielding as water, but for breaking down the firm and strong it has no equal.

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I ride rough waters, and shall sink with no one to save me.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Water Quotes , Save Me Quotes

A writer can be compared to a well. There are as many kinds of wells as there are writers. The important thing is to have good water in the well, and it is better to take a regular amount out than to pump the well dry and wait for it to refill.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Writing Quotes , Water Quotes

Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Moving Quotes , Water Quotes