| | | Page 5 water fountains and waterfalls quotesPage 5 water fountains and waterfalls quotes | In marble halls as white as milk,
Lined with a skin as soft as silk,
Within a fountain crystal-clear,
A golden apple doth appear.
No doors there are to this stronghold,
Yet thieves break in and steal the gold. - Mother Goose Attribution: Mother Goose (fl. 17th–18th century. In marble walls as white as milk (Riddle: An Egg) (l. 1–6). . . Oxford Nursery Rhyme Book, The. Iona Opie and Peter Opie, comps. (1955) Oxford University Press.
Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or
the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the
cistern.
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit
shall return unto God who gave it.
Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher, all is vanity. - Anonymous Attribution: Bible: Hebrew Ecclesiastes (l. XII, 6–7). Prf. Oxford Book of Verse in English Translation, The. Charles Tomlinson, ed. (1980) Oxford University Press.
Like the dew on the mountain,
Like the foam on the river,
Like the bubble on the fountain,
Thou art gone, and for ever! - Sir Walter Scott Attribution: Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832), Scottish novelist, poet. The Lady of the Lake. . . Our Holidays in Poetry. Mildred P. Harrington and Josephine H. Thomas, comps. (1929) The H. W. Wilson Company.
To the sick, indeed, nature is sick, but to the well, a fountain of health. - Henry David Thoreau Attribution: Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. “Natural History of Massachusetts (1842), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 5, p. 104, Houghton Mifflin (1906).
It is time that I wrote my will;
I choose upstanding men
That climb the streams until
The fountain leap, and at dawn
Drop their cast at the side
Of dripping stone; - William Butler Yeats Attribution: William Butler Yeats (1865–1939), Irish poet. The Tower (l. 105–110). . . The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats. Richard J. Finneran, ed. (1989) Macmillan.
I’m headed for a land that’s far away
Beside the crystal fountains.
So come with me, we’ll go and see
The Big Rock Candy Mountains. - Unknown Attribution: Unknown. The Big Rock Candy Mountains (l. 5–8). . . Oxford Book of American Light Verse, The. William Harmon, ed. (1979) Oxford University Press.
Those shadowy recollections,
Which, be they what they may,
Are yet the fountain light of all our day,
Are yet a master light of all our seeing; - William Wordsworth Attribution: William Wordsworth (1770–1850), British poet. Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood (l. 149–152). . . The Poems; Vol. 1 [William Wordsworth]. John O. Hayden, ed. (1977, repr. 1990) Penguin Books.
I’ve learned one thing about life. We’re a good deal like that ball, dancing on the fountain. We know as little about the forces that move us, and move the world around us, as that empty ball does. - Jacques Tourneur, Ardel Wray, Edward Dien Attribution: Ardel Wray, Edward Dien, and Jacques Tourneur. Dr. Galbraith(James Bell), The Leopard Man, Explaining his philosophy of life to Kiki. (1943). From the novel Black Alibi by Cornell Woolrich.....
One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom—such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it—those quarter-hours of profoundest contemplation within oneself and nature. He who completely entrenches himself against boredom also entrenches himself against himself: he will never get to drink the strongest refreshing draught from his own innermost fountain. - Friedrich Nietzsche Attribution: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), German philosopher. The Wanderer and His Shadow, aph. 200, Human, All-Too-Human (1880). Published as second supplement.
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