Joys
Are bubble-like - what makes them,
Bursts them too. [ Bailey ]

A fool's speech is a bubble of air. [ Proverb ]

I have seen corruption boil and bubble
'Till it overrun the stew. [ William Shakespeare ]

The rich man's son inherits cares;
The bank may break, the factory burn,
A breath may burst his bubble shares,
And soft, white hands could hardly earn
A living that would serve his turn. [ Lowell ]

Whose life is a bubble, and in length a span. [ Wm. Browne ]

Oh, greatness! thou art but a flattering dream,
A watery bubble, lighter than the air. [ Tracy ]

Your head is so hot that your brains bubble over. [ Proverb ]

Life itself is a bubble and a scepticism, and a sleep within a sleep. [ Emerson ]

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig. [ Marcus Aurelius ]

My soul, what's lighter than a feather? Wind. Than wind? The fire. And what than fire? The mind.
What's lighter than the mind? A thought. Than thought? This bubble world. What than this bubble? Nought. [ Quarles ]

When a strong brain is weighed with a true heart, it seems to me like balancing a bubble against a wedge of gold. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. Does not Mr. Bryant say that Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while Error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger? [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]