Winston Churchill Quotes, War Quotes, Water Quotes

...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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Who may be called a paramahamsa? He who, like a swan, can take the milk from a mixture of milk and water, leaving aside the water. He who, like an ant, can take the sugar from a mixture of sugar and sand, leaving aside the sand.

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But love is much like a dam; if you allow a tiny crack to form through which only a trickle of water can pass, that trickle will quickly bring down the whole structure and soon no one will be able to control the force of the current.

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If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing.

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Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions.

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Less oft peace in Shelley's mind, Than calm in waters seen.

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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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What is harder than stone? What more soft than water? Nevertheless hard though the rock be, it is hollowed by the wave.

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Nothing is weaker than water, Yet for overcoming what is hard and strong, Nothing surpasses it.

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We may not be God, but we are of God, even as a little drop of water is of the ocean.

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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

It should be like a salmon taking to open water. I've done so much morning radio that I won't be overwhelmed by it, but it's still going to be a challenge.

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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

The public easily confuses him who fishes in troubled waters with him who draws up water from the depths.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Water Quotes , Depth Quotes

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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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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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 best wine is the oldest, the best water the newest.

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Tags : William Blake Quotes , Wine Quotes , Water Quotes

Private courts, Gloomy as coffins, and unsightly lanes Thrilled by some female vendor's scream, belike The very shrillest of all London cries, May then entangle our impatient steps; Conducted through those labyrinths, unawares, To privileged regions and inviolate, Where from their airy lodges studious lawyers Look out on waters, walks, and gardens green.

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Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Garden 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