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  • PLATITUDE, n. The fundamental element and special glory of popular literature. A thought that snores in words that smoke. All that is mortal of a departed truth. A jelly-fish withering on the shore of the sea of thought. A desiccated epigram.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Truth Quotes , Sea Quotes
  • You did not kill the fish only to keep alive and to sell for food, he thought. You killed him for pride and because you are a fisherman. You loved him when he was alive and you loved him after. If you love him, it is not a sin to kill him. Or is it more?
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Pride Quotes , Sea Quotes
  • once upon a time all the rivers combined to protest against the action of the sea in making their waters salt. "When we come to you," sad they to the sea, "we are sweet and drinkable; but when once we have mingled with you, our waters become as briny and unpalatable as your own." The sea replied shortly, "Keep away from me, and you'll remain sweet.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Aesop Quotes , Sweet Quotes , Sea Quotes
  • Nor must Uncle Sam's Web-feet be forgotten. At all the watery margins they have been present. Not only on the deep sea, the broadbay, and the rapid river, but also up the narrow muddy bayou, and wherever the ground was a little damp, they have been, and made their tracks.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Uncles Quotes , Sea Quotes
  • and then he could not see her come into a room without a sense of the flowing of robes, of the flowering of blossoms, of the purple waves of the sea, of all things that are lovely and mutable on the surface but still and passionate in their heart.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Heart Quotes , Sea Quotes