“ Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round. ”
- Edmund Waller- Copy
- 693
“ It was a joy to be a part of the team that created Round The Horne. I was involved with the show at a time of my life when I was very happy., and that happiness overflowed into the scripts. ”
- Barry Took- Copy
- 1K
“ Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world. ”
- Nathaniel Hawthorne- Copy
- 327
“ The true source of cheerfulness is benevolence. The soul that perpetually overflows with kindness and sympathy will always be cheerful. ”
- Parke Godwin- Copy
- 1.5K
“ My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary. ”
- Martin Luther- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter. ”
- Eileen Caddy- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Joy has nothing to do with material things, or with a man's outward circumstance… a man living in the lap of luxury can be wretched, and a man in the depths of poverty can overflow with joy. ”
- William Barclay- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Interest in the lives of others, the high evaluation of these lives, what are they but the overflow of the interest a man finds in himself, the value he attributes to his own being? ”
- Sherwood Anderson- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Fill the cup of happiness for others, and there will be enough overflowing to fill yours to the brim. ”
- Rose Pastor Stokes- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Evangelism is the spontaneous overflow of a glad and free heart in Jesus Christ. ”
- Robert Munger- Copy
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“ Dog. A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
- 604
“ A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
- 499
“ Let the coming hour overflow with joy, and let pleasure drown the brim. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 3.2K
“ A society composed of none but the wicked could not exist; it contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction, and without a flood, would be swept away from the earth by the deluge of its own iniquity. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity: the emotion is contemplated till, by a species of reaction, the tranquillity gradually disappears, and an emotion, kindred to that which was the subject of contemplation, is gradually produced, and does itself actually exist in the mind. ”
- William Wordsworth- Copy
- 1.9K
“ He was built on large lines, and seemed to fill the room to overflowing. In physique he was not unlike what Primo Carnera would have been if Carnera hadn't stunted his growth by smoking cigarettes when a boy. ”
- P.G. Wodehouse- Copy
- 2K
“ Power may justly be compared to a great river; while kept within it bounds it is both beautiful and useful, but when it overflows its banks, it is then too impetuous to be stemmed; it bears down all before it, and brings destruction and desolation wherever it comes. ”
- Andrew Hamilton- Copy
- 3.4K
“ It seems most probable, that the many pre-existent streams in each river basin concentrated their water in a single channel of overflow, and that this one channel survives- a fine example of natural selection. ”
- William Morris Davis- Copy
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“ We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim — objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Warm weather fosters growth: cold weather destroys it. Thus a man with an unsympathetic temperament has a scant joy: but a man with a warm and friendly heart overflowing blessings, and his beneficence will extend to posterity. ”
- Tzu Cheng Hung- Copy
- 3.3K
“ The enemy is like a woman, weak in face of opposition, but correspondingly strong when not opposed. In a quarrel with a man, it is natural for a woman to lose heart and run away when he faces up to her; on the other hand, if the man begins to be afraid and to give ground, her rage, vindictiveness and fury overflow and know no limit. ”
- St. Ignatius Loyola- Copy
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