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Still waters run no mills. - quoted by Aglionby, Life of Bickerstaff (p. 5) Pure water is the best of gifts that man to man can bring, But who am I that I should have the best of anything? Let princes revel at the pump, let peers with ponds make free, Whisky, or wine, or even beer is good enough for me. - Anonymous, in the "Spectator", July 31, 1920, sometimes attributed to Hon. G.W.E. Russell or to Lord Neaves Pouring oil on troubled water. - Bede "The Venerable", Historia Ecclesiastica (bk. III, ch. XV, p. 142), (Hussey's ed.) Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginnings of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power: Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch. - Bible, Genesis (ch. XLIX, v. 3-4) For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him. - Bible, II Samuel (ch. XIV, v. 14) The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea. - Bible, Psalms (ch. XCIII, v. 4) Expect poison from the standing water. - William Blake A cup of cold Adam from the next purling stream. - Tom Brown, Works (vol. IV, p. 11) The miller sees not all the water that goes by his mill. - Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. III, sec. III, memb. 4, subsect. 1) Till taught by pain, Men really know not what good water's worth; If you had been in Turkey or in Spain, Or with a famish'd boat's-crew had your berth, Or in the desert heard the camel's bell, You'd wish yourself where Truth is--in a well. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Don Juan (canto II, st. 84) Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink. The very deep did rot: O Christ! That ever this should be! Yes, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (pt. II, st. 9) The world turns softly Not to spill its lakes and rivers, The water is held in its arms And the sky is held in the water. What is water, That pours silver, And can hold the sky? - Hilda Conkling, Water Water its living strength first shows, When obstacles its course oppose. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, God, Soul, and World--Rhymed Distichs It rolled off my back like a duck. - Samuel Goldwyn And pines with thirst amidst a sea of waves. - Homer ("Smyrns of Chios"), The Odyssey (bk. XI, l. 722), (Pope's translation) Water is the mother of the vine, The nurse and fountain of fecundity, The adorner and refresher of the world. - Charles Mackay, The Dionysia Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters. - Norman Fitzroy Maclean, A River Runs Through It BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK The rising world of waters dark and deep. - John Milton, Paradise Lost (bk. III, l. 11) I'm very fond of water: It ever must delight Each mother's son and daughter,-- When qualified aright. - Lord Charles Neaves, I'm very fond of Water Stones are hollowed out by the constant dropping of water. - Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Epistoloe Ex Ponto (II, 7, 39) There is no small pleasure in sweet water. [Lat., Est in aqua dulci non invidiosa voluptas.] - Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Epistoloe Ex Ponto (II, 7, 73) It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you. [Lat., Miserum est opus, Igitur demum fodere puteum, ubi sitis fauces tedet.] - Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus), Mostellaria (II, 1, 32) A Rechabite poor Will must live, And drink of Adam's ale. - Matthew Prior, The Wandering Pilgrim Here's that which is too weak to be a sinner: Honest water, which ne'er left man i' th' mire. - William Shakespeare, The Life of Timon of Athens (Apemantus at I, ii) O Lord! methought what pain it was to drown! What dreadful noise of waters in mine ears! What sights of ugly death within mine eyes! Methoughts I saw a thousand fearful wracks; A thousand men that fishes gnawed upon; Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl, Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels, All scatt'red in the bottom of the sea: Some lay in dead men's skulls, and in the holes Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept (As 'twere in scorn of eyes) reflecting gems, That wooed the slimy bottom of the deep And mocked the dead bones that lay scatt'red by. - William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (Clarence at I, iv) Displaying page 1 of 2 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2
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