Horace Quotes, Wine Quotes, Water Quotes

No poem was ever written by a drinker of water.

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...every offensive lost its force as it proceeded. It was like throwing a bucket of water over the floor. It first rushed forward, then soaked forward, and finally stopped altogether until another bucket could be brought.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , War Quotes , Water Quotes

In stillness the muddied water returns to clarity.

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It's cold water in the face to realize you're not nearly as special and as unusual as you might have thought when you were an alienated teenager.

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We have to learn how to come out of unclean situations cleaner than we were, and even how to wash ourselves with dirty water whenwe need to.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Dirty Quotes , Water Quotes

Imagine a limitless expanse of water: above and below, before and behind, right and left, everywhere there is water. In that water is placed a jar filled with water. There is water inside the jar and water outside, but the jar is still there. The 'I' is the jar.

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The spinning wheel is as much a necessity of Indian life as air and water.

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This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.

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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Lakes Quotes , Water Quotes

Now when I had mastered the language of this water, and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great river as familiarly as I knew the letters of the alphabet, I had made a valuable acquisition. But I had lost something, too. I had lost something which could never be restored me while I lived. All the grace, the beauty, the poetry, had gone out of the majestic river!

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Rivers Quotes , Water Quotes

Why wilt thou be so sottish, such an enemy to thyself, as to prefer puddle-water, and that poisoned too and stolen, before pure living waters out of thy own well?

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Tags : Matthew Henry Quotes , Water Quotes , Enemy Quotes

Of course, you can’t force your mind to be silent. That would be like trying to smooth ripples in water with a flatiron. Water becomes clear and calm only when left alone.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Water Quotes , Mind Quotes

RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and narcotize the conscience.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Water Quotes , Imagination Quotes

We are doubly willing to jump into the water after some one who has fallen in, if there are people present who have not the courage to do so.

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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 has no existence by itself; it is only the glitter of the sun on the surface of the waters.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Water Quotes , Mind Quotes

Who is there who can make muddy waters clear? But if allowed to remain still, it will gradually clear itself.

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What is significant in one's own existence one is hardly aware, and it certainly should not bother the other fellow. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life?

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Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Water Quotes , Swim Quotes

The seed of mystery lies in muddy water. How can I perceive this mystery? Water becomes clear through stillness. How can I become still? By flowing with the stream.

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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Lying Quotes , Water Quotes

A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable.

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Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Lakes Quotes , Water Quotes

Where the waters do agree, it is quite wonderful the relief they give.

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Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Giving Quotes , Water Quotes