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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Let righteousness cover the earth like the water cover the sea!

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Tags : Bob Marley Quotes , Sea Quotes , Water Quotes

Ahimsa is an attribute of the brave. Cowardice and ahimsa don't go together any more that water and fire.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Fire Quotes , Water Quotes

There twice a day the Severn fills; The salt sea-water passes by, And hushes half the babbling Wye, And makes a silence in the hills.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Sea Quotes , Water Quotes

I don't drink water, haven't drank water in 40 years.

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Tags : Lou Holtz Quotes , Years Quotes , Water 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

There is no small pleasure in pure water.

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Water Quotes , Small Pleasures Quotes

As a water bead on a lotus leaf, as water on a red lily, does not adhere, so the sage does not adhere to the seen, the heard, or the sensed.

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Buddhist Quotes , Water Quotes

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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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Writing Quotes , Water Quotes

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

As I turned away, I saw Holmes, with his back against a rock and his arms folded, gazing down at the rush of the waters. It was the last that I was ever destined to see of him in this world. - Watson.

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Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Rocks Quotes , Water Quotes

A little amateur painting in water colors shows the innocent and the quiet mind.

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Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Color Quotes , Water Quotes

You can't get wet from the word 'water.'

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Water Quotes

Women's weapon, water-drops.

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Tags : O. Henry Quotes , Water Quotes , Weapons Quotes

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

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

Now that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing - to learn to live on earth as human beings.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Air Quotes , Water Quotes

Slater soaks into the mind as water into low and marshy places, where it becomes stagnant and offensive.

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Tags : Confucius Quotes , Water Quotes , Mind Quotes

I have always had a very natural connection to the water, and that connection stems from the ocean itself.

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Tags : Aaron Peirsol Quotes , Ocean Quotes , Water Quotes

When you drink of the water, don't forget the spring from which it flows.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Spring Quotes , Water Quotes

He comes into the world God knows how, walks on the water, gets out of his grave and goes up off the Hill of Howth. What drivel is this?

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Tags : James Joyce Quotes , Water Quotes , Jesus Christ Quotes