Water from a fountain quenches the excessive heat which would destroy this life. Thus water can be called the only everlasting source of continuous being. — Nicola Salvi
The only fountain in the wilderness of life, where man drinks of water totally unmixed with bitterness, is that which gushes for him in the calm and shady recess of domestic life. — William Penn
Water is the mother of the vine, the nurse and fountain of fecundity, the adorner and refresher of the world. — Charles MacKay
The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises. — Sigmund Freud
For if joyful is the fountain that rises in the sun, its springs are in the wells of sorrow unfathomable at the foundations of the Earth. — J. R. R. Tolkien
You are the fountain of the sun. I'm the shadow of a willow. You fall upon my forehead. I melt. You slip into my heart. It spills open. You surround me with such sweetness. I make it my home. — Rumi
The bible is a remarkable fountain: the more one draws and drinks of it, the more it stimulates thirst. — Martin Luther
A very wise quote is a spectacular waterfall! When you see it, you feel its power! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking. — Kahlil Gibran
Constant dripping hollows out a stone. — Lucretius
Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig. — Marcus Aurelius
Short Water Fountain Quotes
A waterfall cannot be silent, just as the wisdom! When they speak, the voice of power speaks! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
The real fountain of youth is to have a dirty mind. — Jerry Hall
The idea is that flowing water never goes stale, so just keep on flowing. — Bruce Lee
Water is the driving force of all nature. — Leonardo da Vinci
Water adopts the shape of its receptacle, it is sometimes a trickle and sometimes a wild sea. — Miyamoto Musashi
Just let go - and fall like a little waterfall — Bob Ross
Water is the soul of the Earth. — W. H. Auden
Even water gets stale if it does not flow. — Albanian Proverbs
Music comes from an icicle as it melts, to live again as spring water. — Henry Williamson
Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow. — Plutarch
Water Fountain Image Quotes
The six best doctors: Sunshine, water, rest, air, exercise and diet.
Fountain Quotes
Music is a science, it heals depression, it awakens, most people don't know, they just take music for an entertainment, something to dance to, and enjoy yourself and you go to bed and forget it tomorrow, music must never be forgotten, it's like a fountain that keeps on flowing — Peter Tosh
You are only as young as your spine is flexible. — Joseph Pilates
Some men rob you with a six-gun -- others rob you with a fountain pen. — Woody Guthrie
The mind is like water. When it's turbulent, it's difficult to see. When it's calm, everything becomes clear.
Timeless, so age don't count in the booth
When your flow stay submerged in the fountain of youth — Rakim
To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth. — Pearl S. Buck
My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane. — Graham Greene
Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals. — Aldo Leopold
Music... will help dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibilities, and in time of care and sorrow, will keep a fountain of joy alive in you. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Fount Quotes
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge. — Igor Stravinsky
Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words. — Carl Jung
The Internet has become a remarkable fount of economic and social innovation largely because it's been an archetypal level playing field, on which even sites with little or no money behind them - blogs, say, or Wikipedia - can become influential. — James Surowiecki
Just as the water reflects the stars and the moon, the body reflects the mind and soul.
There is in all this cold and hollow world, No fount of deep, strong,deathless love ;save that within a mother's heart — Felicia Hemans
If it be true that any beautiful thing raises the pure and just desire of man from earth to God, the eternal fount of all, such I believe my love. — Michelangelo
The virtue of pride, which was once the beauty of mankind, has given place to that fount of ugliness, Christian humility. — Max Ernst
Entire water of the sea can't sink a ship, unless it gets inside the ship. Similarly negativity of the world can't put you down unless you allow it to get inside you !
Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. — Carl Jung
Those who become incoculated with the virus of race hatred are more unfortunate than the victim of it. Race hatred is the most malignant poison that can afflict the mind. It freezes up the fount of inspiration and chills the higher faculties of the soul. — Kelly Miller
The Eucharistic mystery stands at the heart and center of the liturgy since it is the fount of life by which we are cleansed and strengthened to live not for ourselves but for God and to be united in love among ourselves. — Pope Paul VI
What a way to learn great theology! That's what comes to mind whenever I sing one of those old hymns. "And Can It Be" is like putting the doctrine of salvation to music. "Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing" is a melodic lesson in grace. No wonder good hymns make for strong faith! — Joni Eareckson Tada
Fountain Head Quotes
I have often found a small stream at its fountain-head, that, when followed up, carried away the camel with his load. — Saadi Shirazi
To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you understand why that's much harder? — Ayn Rand
I am a man who does not exist for others. — Ayn Rand
Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.
Our neighbors shake their heads And take their valuables inside While my countrymen piss in the fountains To express their national pride. — Billy Bragg
One loses everything when one loses one's sense of humor. — Ayn Rand
Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed. — Ayn Rand
Let the waters settle and you will see the moon and the stars mirrored in your own being.
I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between. — Ayn Rand
I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you. — Ayn Rand
You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated — Ayn Rand
The precepts of philosophy and of the Hebrew code, laid hold of actions only. (Jesus) pushed his scrutinies into the heart of man, erected his tribunal in the regions of his thoughts, and purified the waters at the fountain head. — Thomas Jefferson
Fain Quotes
Today...the bluebirds, old and young, have revisited their box, as if they would fain repeat the summer without intervention of winter, if Nature would let them. — Henry David Thoreau
Fain would I kiss my Julia's dainty leg, Which is as white and hairless as an egg. — Robert Herrick
In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society. — Henry David Thoreau
Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow you most intense obsessions mercilessly.
When a whole nation is roaring patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and the purity of its heart. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,--I mean good-nature,--are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life. — John Dryden
You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
The philosopher who would fain extinguish his passions resembles the chemist who would like to let his furnace go out. — Nicolas Chamfort
Most friendship is faining, most loving mere folly:
Then, heigh-ho, the holly.
This life is most jolly. — William Shakespeare
Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another's woe. — Petrarch
In my walks, I would fain return to my senses. What business have I in the woods if I am thinking of something out of the woods? — Henry David Thoreau
This-this was what made life: a moment of quiet, the water falling in the fountain, the girl's voice. . . a moment of captured beauty. Those who are truly wise will never permit such moments to escape. — Louis L'Amour
They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.
Let me speak frankly: separate but equal is a fraud. It is the language that tried to push Rosa Parks to the back of the bus. It is the motif that determined that black and white people could not possibly drink from the same water fountain, eat at the same table or use the same toilets. — David Lammy
Be praised, My Lord, through Sister Water; she is very useful, and humble, and precious, and pure. — Francis of Assisi
There is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts it never fails, and in the mightiest floods it never overflows. Its banks and its bottom are of cold water, while its current is of warm. The Gulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its mouth is in the Arctic Sea. It is the Gulf Stream. — Matthew Fontaine Maury
I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.
People get bent out of shape about the fact that when I was a kid, you could not drink out of certain water fountains. Well, the water was the same. — Clarence Thomas
If you gave me several million years, there would be nothing that did not grow in beauty if it were surrounded by water. — Jan Erik Vold
To trace the history of a river . . . is to trace the history of the soul, the history of the mind descending and arising in the body. — Gretel Ehrlich
God, she was beautiful - my first image of the Orient - a woman such as only the desert poet knew how to praise: her face was the sun, her hair the protecting shadow, her eyes fountains of cool water, her body the most slender of palm-trees and her smile a mirage. — Amin Maalouf
Don't you realize that the sea is the home of water? All water is off on a journey unless it's in the sea, and it's homesick, and bound to make its way home someday. — Zora Neale Hurston
Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called rain. — Mike McAlary
In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources has become the victim of his indifference. — Rachel Carson
Because of the Thames I have always loved inland waterways - water in general, water sounds - there's music in water. Brooks babbling, fountains splashing. Weirs, waterfalls; tumbling, gushing. — Julie Andrews
The Holy Spirit is just as truly in us when He makes no sign as when the fountains of joy are overflowing, or the waters of peace are softly refreshing our weary and troubled heart. — A. B. Simpson
I personally would like to bring a tortoise onto the stage, turn it into a racehorse, then into a hat, a song, a dragoon and a fountain of water. One can dare anything in the theatre and it is the place where one dares the least. — Eugene Ionesco
A fountain is the memory of nature, this marvelous sound of a little river in the mountains translated to the city. For me, a fountain doesn't mean a big jet of water. It means humidity, the origin of life. — Jaume Plensa
Children of a culture born in a water-rich environment, we have never really learned how important water is to us. We understand it, but we do not respect it. — William Ashworth
See yonder rock from which the fountain gushes; is it less compact of adamant, though waters flow from it? Firm hearts have moister eyes. — Walter Scott
It is a fascinating and provocative thought that a body of water deserves to be considered as an organism in its own right. — Lyall Watson
Michelle Alexander's brave and bold new book paints a haunting picture in which dreary felon garb, post-prison joblessness, and loss of voting rights now do the stigmatizing work once done by colored-only water fountains and legally segregated schools. With dazzling candor, Alexander argues that we all pay the cost of the new Jim Crow. — Lani Guinier
Water is a very good servant, but it is a cruel master. — Charles G.D. Roberts
Unlike a fountain that circulates the same water in an enclosed, perpetually recycling system, a human being circulates thoughts in an unlimited reservoir of self. Don't limit yourself to being a mere fountain when you contain an ocean. — Vera Nazarian
As water in a fountain flows as one stream,
but falls in many drops divided by time and space,
so are the revelations of the one stream of truth. — Hazrat Inayat Khan
The trees reflected in the river - they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
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
I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river Is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable. — T. S. Eliot
Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted; If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters, returning Back to their springs, like the rain, shall fill them full of refreshment; That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A beneficent person is like a fountain watering the earth, and spreading fertility; it is, therefore, more delightful to give than to receive. — Epicurus
Happy in all that ragged, loose collapse of water, the fountain, its effortless descent and flatteries of spray. — Richard Wilbur
From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers. — Lucretius
In that moment Ged understood the singing of the bird, and the language of the water falling in the basin of the fountain, and the shape of the clouds, and the beginning and end of the wind that stirred the leaves; it seemed to him that he himself was a word spoken by the sunlight. — Ursula K. Le Guin
Poetry is a plan for a slit in the face of a bronze fountain goat and the path of fresh drinking water. — Carl Sandburg
The vicissitudes of life resemble one of those gilded balls seen in a fountain. Thrown up by the force of the water, it flies up and down - now at the top, catching the rays of the sun, now cast into the depths, then again shooting up, sometimes so high that it escapes altogether, and falls to the ground. — Lady Randolph Churchill
Nor is a day lived if the dawn is left out of it, with the prospects it opens. Who speaks charmingly of nature or of mankind, like him who comes bibulous of sunrise and the fountains of waters? — Amos Bronson Alcott
We never with our eyes saw our own soul; yet we have a soul. We see many rivers, but we know not their first spring and original fountain; yet they have a beginning. ...When ye are come to the other side...set down your foot on the shore of glorious eternity, and look back again to the waters and to your wearisome journey, and shall see, in that clear glass of endless glory, nearer to the bottom of God's wisdom, ye shall then be forced to say, 'If God had done otherwise with me than He hath done, I had never come to the enjoying of this crown of glory.' It is your part now to believe, and suffer, and hope, and wait on... — Samuel Rutherford
There is evil poured upon the earth from the overflowings of corruption-- Sickness, and poverty, and pain, and guilt, and madness, and sorrow; But, as the water from a fountain riseth and sinketh to its level, Ceaselessly toileth justice to equalize the lots of men. — William Hazlitt
He who has access to the fountain does not go to the water-pot. — Leonardo da Vinci
Discontent is like ink poured into water, which fills the whole fountain full of blackness. — Owen Feltham
The wind, one brilliant day, called to my soul with an odor of jasmine. "In return for the odor of my jasmine, I'd like all the odor of your roses." "I have no roses; all the flowers in my garden are dead." "Well then, I'll take the withered petals and the yellow leaves and the waters of the fountain." the wind left. And I wept. And I said to myself: "What have you done with the garden that was entrusted to you? — Antonio Machado
I'm hurt, hurt and humiliated beyond endurance, seeing the wheat ripening, the fountains never ceasing to give water, the sheep bearing hundreds of lambs, the she-dogs, until it seems the whole country rises to show me its tender sleeping young while I feel two hammer-blows here instead of the mouth of my child. — Federico Garcia Lorca
Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them. You may dam up the fountain of water, and make it a stagnant marsh, or you may let it run free and do its work; but you cannot say whether it shall be there; it is there. And it will act, if not openly for good, then covertly for evil; but it will act. — Olive Schreiner
Rocks and waters, etc., are words of God, and so are men. We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love. — John Muir
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