Muddy Quotes

• Let muddy water stand and it will become clear.

  Laozi

  Water, Clear

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• 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.

  Alan Watts

  Freedom, Water, Leaving

  Alan W. Watts (2011). “The Way of Zen”, p.157, Vintage

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• Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

  Alan Watts

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Freedom

  Alan W. Watts (2011). “The Way of Zen”, p.157, Vintage

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• 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.

  Ming-Dao Deng

  Water, Mind, Clear

  Ming-Dao Deng (2013). “365 Tao: Daily Meditations”, p.17, Harper Collins

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• If a frog becomes a king, he will make the whole kingdom muddy!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Kings, Kingdoms, Frogs

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• The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Flower, Water, Doe

  B. K. S. Iyengar (2016). “Sparks of Divinity: The Teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar”, p.48, Shambhala Publications

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• If you got something you don't want other people to know, keep it in your pocket.

  Muddy Waters

  People, Pockets, Want

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• Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Relationship, Marriage, Lakes

  'Melincourt' (1817)

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• Invention flags, his brain goes muddy,
  And black despair succeeds brown study.

  William Congreve

  Black, Brain, Despair

  "An Impossible Thing". Poem by William Congreve, 1720.

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• I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory.

  Muddy Waters

  Memories, Long, Causes

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• 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.

  Muddy Waters

  Money, Play, People

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• People should hear the pure blues - the #‎ blues we used to have when we had no money.

  Muddy Waters

  People, Used, Should

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• 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.

  Muddy Waters

  Christmas, Running, Crazy

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• Man, you don't know how I felt that afternoon when I heard that VOICE and it was my own VOICE.

  Muddy Waters

  Men, Voice, Afternoon

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• I rambled all the time. I was just like that, like a rollin' stone.

  Muddy Waters

  Stones

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• 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.

  Muddy Waters

  Night, Sunrise, Sandwiches

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• Of course that was my idol, Son House. I think he did a lot for the Mississippi slide down there.

  Muddy Waters

  Son, Thinking, Idols

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• You get a heck of a sound from the church. Can't you hear it in my voice?

  Muddy Waters

  Voice, Church, Sound

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• 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.

  Muddy Waters

  Baseball, Hurt, Player

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• Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich.

  Muddy Waters

  Sunrise, Sandwiches, Cents

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• That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through.

  Muddy Waters

  Mississippi Delta, Sound, Records

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• 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.

  John Milton

  Truth, Science, Water

  John Milton (1859). “The prose works of John Milton”, p.183

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• 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.

  Tom Robbins

  Aquariums, Swim, Soul

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.194, Bantam

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

  Laozi

  Powerful, Water, Clear

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• 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.

  Robert Hunter

  Dream, Song, Fall

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