Let muddy water stand and it will become clear.
As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one of the best possible contributions to a world in turmoil.
Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
Muddy water will become clear if allowed to stand undisturbed, and so too will the mind become clear if it is allowed to be still.
If a frog becomes a king, he will make the whole kingdom muddy!
The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world.
If you got something you don't want other people to know, keep it in your pocket.
Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond.
Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, And black despair succeeds brown study.
I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory.
Theres no way in the world I can feel the same blues the way I used to. When I play in Chicago, Im playing up-to-date, not the blues I was born with. People should hear the pure blues - the blues we used to have when we had no money.
People should hear the pure blues - the # blues we used to have when we had no money.
I stone got crazy when I saw somebody run down them strings with a bottleneck. My eyes lit up like a Christmas tree and I said that I had to learn.
Man, you don't know how I felt that afternoon when I heard that VOICE and it was my own VOICE.
I rambled all the time. I was just like that, like a rollin' stone.
Saturday night is your big night. Everybody used to fry up fish and have one hell of a time. Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich. And be glad of it. And they really liked the low-down blues.
Of course that was my idol, Son House. I think he did a lot for the Mississippi slide down there.
You get a heck of a sound from the church. Can't you hear it in my voice?
I wanted to definitely be a musician or a good preacher or a heck of a baseball player. I couldn't play ball too good - I hurt my finger, and I stopped that. I couldn't preach, and well, all I had left was getting into the music thing.
Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich.
That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through.
Truth is compared in Scripture to a streaming fountain; if her waters flow not in perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition.
Early religions were like muddy ponds with lots of foliage. Concealed there, the fish of the soul could splash and feed. Eventually, however, religions became aquariums. Then hatcheries. From farm fingerling to frozen fish stick is a short swim.
Who is there who can make muddy waters clear? But if allowed to remain still, it will gradually clear itself.
When it seems like the night will last forever, And there's nothing left to do but count the years, When the strings of my harp to sever, And stones fall from my eyes instead of tears... I will walk alone by the black muddy river, And dream me a dream of my own, I will walk alone by the black muddy river, And sing me a song of my own.
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