“ Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy. ”
- Claude M. Bristol- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle. ”
- Grant M. Bright- Copy
- 193
“ The aim of education should be to convert the mind into a living fountain, and not a reservoir. ”
- John Mason- Copy
- 4K
“ 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- Copy
- 939
“ The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain, to show them that we love them, not when we feel like it, but when they do. ”
- Nan Fairbrother- Copy
- 536
“ The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation, because in the degradation of women, the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source. ”
- Lucretia Mott- Copy
- 3.7K
“ 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- Copy
- 2.1K
“ Rubinstein was a fountain from which music spouted, not a recitalist. ”
- Donal Henahan- Copy
- 936
“ Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain. ”
- Barbara Kingsolver- Copy
- 3.7K
“ A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles. ”
- Washington Irving- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain. ”
- John Locke- Copy
- 3K
“ In the desert a fountain is springing, In the wide waste there still is a tree, And a bird in the solitude singing, Which speaks to my spirit of thee. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Faith is the fountain of prayer, and prayer should be nothing else but faith exercised. ”
- Thomas Manton- Copy
- 2.8K
“ From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers. ”
- Lucretius- Copy
- 2.3K
“ In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers. ”
- Lucretius- Copy
- 3.2K
“ 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- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Prayer is an all-efficient panoply, a treasure undiminished, a mine which is never exhausted, a sky unobscured by clouds, a heaven unruffled by the storm. It is the root, the fountain, the mother of a thousand blessings. ”
- St. John Chrysostom- Copy
- 2.1K
“ The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result they get little. ”
- Ben Sweetland- Copy
- 1.5K
“ There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap into this source, you will truly have defeated age. ”
- Sophia Loren- Copy
- 1.5K
“ You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good things, and the flowing fountain, which awaits the successful achievement or attainment of the desires. ”
- Robert Collier- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Mine be the breezy hill that skirts the down, Where a green grassy turf is all I crave, With here and there a violet bestrewn, Fast by a brook or fountain's murmuring wave; And many an evening sun shine sweetly on my grave! ”
- James Beattie- Copy
- 1.6K
“ The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough. ”
- George Moore- Copy
- 933
“ There is no Gain in the world: so be it: but neither is there any Loss. There is never any failure to this infinite freshness of life, and the ancient novelty is forever renewed. We realize the world better if we imagine it, not as a Progress to Prim Perfection, but as the sustained upleaping of a Fountain, the pillar of a Glorious Flame… ”
- Havelock Ellis- Copy
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