Best 87 quotes in «fountain quotes» category

A woman moved is like a fountain troubled, Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty.

Cleanse the fountain if you would purify the streams.

Be like the fountain that overflows, not like the cistern that merely contains.

College is like a fountain of knowledge - and the students are there to drink

Conceiving God to be the fountain of wisdom, I thought it right and necessary to solicit his assistance for obtaining it.

Discontent is like ink poured into water, which fills the whole fountain full of blackness.

Creation differs from subsistence only as the first leap of a fountain differs from its continuance.

Every sunny morning is a great fountain; we quaff 'sweet hope' from it.

Do not spit gum in the drinking fountains.

Draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you. Keep near to the fountain-head and with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.

Fountains are more romantic when you don't hate the person you're with.

For know that all the inferior Creatures when hurt do cry and send forth the complaints to their Maker or grand Fountain whence they proceeded.

Friendship flourishes at the fountain of forgiveness.

Faith is the fountain, the foundation and the fosterer of obedience.

Greece appears to be the fountain of knowledge; Rome of elegance

He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.

He who has access to the fountain does not go to the water-pot.

He [William Harvey] bid me to goe to the Fountain-head, and read Aristotle, Cicero, Avicenna, and did call the Neoteriques shitt-breeches.

Hope is a gift. You can't choose to have it. To believe and yet to have no hope is to thirst beside a fountain.

If God contains the fullness of all good things in Himself like an inexhaustible fountain, nothing beyond Him is to be sought by those who strike after the highest good and all the elements of happiness.

God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.

I don't want anything to do with anything mechanical between me and the paper, including a typewriter, and I don't even want a fountain pen between me and the paper.

I have to write a first draft with a fountain pen before I type it up as a second.

It is one of the worst effects of prosperity to make a man a vortex instead of a fountain; so that, instead of throwing out, he learns only to draw in.

Joy bubbles on a fountain of doubt.

Let's face it, I like Stanford grads. I'd always hear about this campus, and everybody is riding bikes, and people hopping into fountains.

Our neighbors shake their heads And take their valuables inside While my countrymen piss in the fountains To express their national pride.

Mathematics - the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs.

My countrymen have commissioned a bust of the Republic. It will be placed on the fountain of my native town.

Nature as a poet, an enthusiastic workingman, becomes more and more visible the farther and higher we go; for the mountains are fountains – beginning places, however related to sources beyond mortal ken.

May God keep fresh the fountain of our laughter and our tears!

My counsel is, that we draw water from the true source and fountain, that is, that we diligently search the Scriptures. He who wholly possesses the text of the Bible, is a consummate divine.

Now to rivulets from the mountains Point the rods of fortune-tellers; Youth perpetual dwells in fountains, Not in flasks, and casks, and cellars.

Paris is the fountain-head of European civilisation, as Gomukhi is of the Ganga.

Phones and soundtracks and Muzak and fountains replace genuine and unpredictable human contact with a seamless soundtrack from a bad movie and a cliche that makes us believe we must all be happy.

Professional footballers - those virile young stags of our modern culture - are near perpetual fountains of sputum.

Quoting Scripture leads you to the fountain, but only if you plunge in and come up wet will I know that you are a Christian.

Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable, inasmuch as he has the fountain of reason in him not yet regulated.

Talent is full of thoughts, Genius is thought. Talent is a cistern, Genius a fountain.

Religion will prove to the believer a comforter and a sure guide to the fountain of true happiness.

Right after I did 'The Fountain,' I wanted to go make a documentary or something that was less constructed - more natural. I was searching for a project, and sniffing around, 'The Wrestler' fit right in

Seeing the show is like a visit to the fountain of youth for parents and the children.

Slang is a foul pool at which every dunce fills his bucket, and then sets up as a fountain.

The bible is a remarkable fountain: the more one draws and drinks of it, the more it stimulates thirst.

That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.

The Bible is endlessly interesting because it is God's story, and God by nature is himself endlessly interesting. The Bible is an ever-flowing fountain. The more you read it, the more you find its truth and beauty to be inexhaustible.

The Bible is the fountain of truth.

The cistern contains: The fountain overflows.

The feminine values are the fountain of bliss. Know the masculine, Keep to the feminine.

The Creator, the fountain of all wisdom, the approver of perpetual order, the eternal and superessential spring of geometry and harmonics.