Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back. [ Ben Jonson ]

Wave rolling after wave in torrent rapture. [ Milton ]

The happiness of the wicked passes away like a torrent. [ Racine ]

Love is a torrent that one checks by digging a bed for it. [ Commerson ]

He that is carried down the torrent catches at every thing. [ Proverb ]

To many a torrent flow of speech and their own eloquence is fatal. [ Juv ]

I struggle against an opposing current; the torrent which sweeps away others does not overpower me, and I make head against the on-rushing stream. [ Ovid ]

In youth, grief comes with a rush and overflow, but it dries up, too, like the torrent. In the winter of life it remains a miserable pool, resisting all evaporation. [ Madame Swetchine ]

This is that eloquence the ancients represented as lightning, bearing down every opposer; this the power which has turned whole assemblies into astonishment, admiration and awe that is described by the torrent, the flame, and every other instance of irresistible impetuosity. [ Goldsmith ]

The blindness of bigotry, the madness of ambition, and the miscalculations of diplomacy seek their victims principally amongst the innocent and the unoffending. The cottage is sure to suffer for every error of the court, the cabinet, or the camp. When error sits in the seat of power and of authority, and is generated in high places, it may be compared to that torrent which originates indeed in the mountain, but commits its devastation in the vale. [ Colton ]