quotes on water

Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving. ~Charles Lamb, 1821



Professor Johnston often said that if you didn't know history, you didn't know anything. You were a leaf that didn't know it was part of a tree. ~Michael Crichton, Timeline



The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets. ~Christopher Morley



I've spent most of my life walking under that hovering cloud, jealousy, whose acid raindrops blurred my vision and burned holes in my heart. ~Astrid Alauda



I saw the days of the year stretching ahead like a series of bright, white boxes, and separating one box from another was sleep, like a black shade. Only for me, the long perspective of shades that set off one box from the next day had suddenly snapped up, and I could see day after day after day glaring ahead of me like a white, broad, infinitely desolate avenue. ~Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar



Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. ~Grandma Moses



Water which is too pure has no fish. ~Ts'ai Ken T'an



The study of history is the playground of patriotism. ~George M. Wrong



Men are clinging to football on a level we aren't even aware of. For centuries, we ruled everything, and now, in the last ten minutes, there are all these incursions by women. It's our Alamo. ~Tony Kornheiser



If curling were easy, they'd call it hockey. ~Author Unknown



I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better. ~Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh, 1903



I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap. ~Fred Allen



The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head. ~Matthew 8:20



Hope is patience with the lamp lit. ~Tertullian



The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war. ~Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit



Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football. ~Fran Lebowitz



He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers. ~Jonathan Swift



A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable. ~Thomas Jefferson



The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness. ~Martin Esslin



There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~Minnie Aumonier