Water Quotes - Page 39

• I find that when I have any appointment, even an afternoon one, it changes the whole quality of time. I feel overcharged. There is no space for what wells up from the subconscious; those dreams and images live in deep still water and simply submerge when the day gets scattered.

  May Sarton

  Dream, Space, Quality

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.103, Open Road Media

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• Nature, at all events, humanly speaking, is manifestly very fond of color; for she has made nothing without it. Her skies are blue; her fields, green; her waters vary with her skies; her animals, vegetables, minerals, are all colored. She paints a great any of them in apparently superfluous hues, as if to show the dullest eye how she loves color.

  Leigh Hunt

  Nature, Eye, Animal

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• A bed or a chair will trick you if you stay still on them long at a time. They will draw out your strength and leave you weak as water.

  Julia Peterkin

  Strength, Time, Long

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• Speech is as a pump, by which we raise and pour out the water from the great lake of Thought,--whither it flows back again.

  John Sterling

  Lakes, Speech, Pumps

  John Sterling (1848). “Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues”, p.155

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• A good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.

  John Dryden

  Men, Wind, May

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• I feel my sinews slackened with the fright, and a cold sweat trills down all over my limbs, as if I were dissolving into water.

  John Dryden

  Fear, Sweat, Cold

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• After all, there is such a thing as looking like a gentleman. There are men whose class no dirt or rags can hide, any more than they could Ulysses. I have seen such men in plenty among workmen, too; but, on the whole, the gentleman--by whom I do not mean just now the rich--have the superiority in that point. But not, please God, forever. Give us the same air, water, exercise, education, good society, and you will see whether this "haggardness," this "coarseness" (etc., for the list is too long to specify), be an accident, or a property, of the man of the people.

  Charles Kingsley

  Mean, Exercise, Men

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• The process could be likened to relaxing on a riverbank and watching a fish leap out of the water, sparkle for a moment in the sunlight, then dive back in a graceful arc. There is no need to engage in a mental dialogue about the merits and demerits of the fish, emotionally react to the fish, or jump into the water to try to catch the fish. Once the fish is out of sight, it should also be out of mind.

  Bill Vaughan

  Sight, Meditation, Mind

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• Good words quench more then a bucket of water.

  George Herbert

  Buckets, Quench, Good Words

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.327

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• [On William Lyon Phelps's Happiness:] It is second only to a rubber duck as the ideal bathtub companion. It may be held in the hand without causing muscular fatigue ... and it may be read through before the water has cooled. And if it slips down the drain pipe, all right, it slips down the drain pipe.

  Dorothy Parker

  Ducks, Hands, May

  Dorothy Parker (2004). “Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• When one that holds communion with the skies
  Has fill'd his urn where these pure waters rise,
  And once more mingles with us meaner things,
  'Tis e'en as if an angel shook his wings.

  William Cowper

  Angel, Sky, Wings

  William Cowper (1855). “The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings”, p.77

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• The fall of waters and the song of birds,
  And hills that echo to the distant berds,
  Are luxuries excelling all the glare
  The world can boast, and her chief favorites share.

  William Cowper

  Song, Retirement, Fall

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• Go, little Book! From this my solitude
  I cast thee on the Waters,--go thy ways:
  And if, as I believe, thy vein be good,
  The World will find thee after many days.
  Be it with thee according to thy worth:
  Go, little Book; in faith I send thee forth.

  Robert Southey

  Believe, Book, Solitude

  Robert Southey (1847). “The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: Complete in One Volume”, p.765

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• Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were
  To see thee in our water yet appear.

  Ben Jonson

  Sweet, Swans, Sight

  'To the Memory of My Beloved, The Author, Mr William Shakespeare' (1623)

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• There are persons of that general philanthropy and easy tempers, which the world in contempt generally calls good-natured, who seem to be sent into the world with the same design with which men put little fish into a pike pond, in order only to be devoured by that voracious water-hero.

  Henry Fielding

  Hero, Men, Order

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• Hide me from day's garish eye, While the bee with honied thigh, That at her flowery work doth sing, And the waters murmuring With such consort as they keep, Entice the dewy-feathered sleep.

  John Milton

  Sleep, Eye, Murmuring

  'Il Penseroso' (1645) l. 141

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• As oil will find its way into crevices where water cannot penetrate, so song will find its way where speech can no longer enter.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Music, Song, Oil

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1856). “Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp”, p.325

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• Nothing, I believe, is so full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a stagnant pool.

  Agatha Christie

  Believe, Pool, Microscopes

  Agatha Christie (1976). “Sleeping Murder & the Murder at the Vicarage”

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• I write a woman's oaths in water.

  Sophocles

  Writing, Oath

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 564, Fragment, 694, 1922.

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• The water-lily, in the midst of waters, opens its leaves and expands its petals, at the first pattering of the shower, and rejoices in the rain-drops with a quicker sympathy than the packed shrubs in the sandy desert.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Freedom, Rain, Water Lily

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• The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers.

  Golda Meir

  Middle East, Needs, Bombers

  Golda Meir, Marie Syrkin (1973). “A land of our own: an oral autobiography”, Putnam Publishing Group

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• Ceremony keeps up things: 'tis like a penny glass to a rich spirit, or some excellent water; without it the water were spilt, and the spirit lost.

  John Selden

  Glasses, Pennies, Spirit

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• In a troubled state we must do as in foul weather upon a river, not think to cut directly through, for the boat may be filled with water; but rise and fall as the waves do, and give way as much as we conveniently can.

  John Selden

  Fall, Cutting, Thinking

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• Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.

  Berthold Auerbach

  Anger, Men, Weak Man

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• [On growing up in a large family with little money:] ... to take a bath ... we just had a pan of water and we'd wash down as far as possible, and we'd wash up as far as possible. Then, when somebody'd clear the room, we'd wash possible.

  Dolly Parton

  Growing Up, Littles, Rooms

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