Words writ in waters. [ George Chapman ]
Oil on troubled waters. [ Bede ]
Great ships ask deep waters. [ Proverb ]
The winds with wonder whist.
Smoothly the waters kisst. [ Milton ]
A great ship asks deep waters. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Serpents engender in still waters. [ Proverb ]
Thine eyes are springs in whose serene
And silent waters heaven is seen. [ William Cullen Bryant ]
It is good fishing in troubled waters. [ Proverb ]
Time's waters will not ebb nor stay;
Power cannot change them, but Love may;
What cannot be, Love counts it done. [ Keble ]
Muddy waters are the fishmonger's gain. [ Proverb ]
O lovely eyes of azure.
Clear as the waters of a brook that run
Limpid and laughing in the summer sun! [ Longfellow ]
Oh! in that future let us think
To hold each heart the heart that shares;
With them the immortal waters drink,
And, soul in soul, grow deathless theirs! [ Byron ]
Once more upon the waters! yet once more!
And the waves bound beneath me as a steed
That knows his rider. [ Byron ]
Dumb dogs and still waters are dangerous. [ German Proverb ]
The rising world of waters dark and deep. [ Milton ]
Mystery of waters, - never slumbering sea! [ Montgomery ]
And evermore the waters worship God;
And bards and prophets tune their mystic lyres
While listening to the music of the waves! [ Mrs. Hale ]
Excitement is the drunkenness of the spirits.
Only calm waters reflect heaven in their bosom. [ Marguerite de Valois ]
Take heed of still waters; the quick pass away. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
And softened sounds along the waters die:
Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play. [ Pope ]
The fall of waters and the song of birds.
And hills that echo to the distant herds.
Are luxuries excelling all the glare
The world can boast, and her chief favorites share. [ Cowper ]
Silent men, like still waters, are deep and dangerous. [ Proverb ]
He would find waters with the first stroke of his spade. [ Proverb ]
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it. [ Bible ]
On the brink of the waters of life and truth we are miserably dying. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Mental stains cannot be removed by time, nor washed away by any waters. [ Cicero ]
God brings men into deep waters, not to drown them, but to cleanse them. [ Aughey ]
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. [ Longfellow ]
Life, like the waters of the seas, freshens only when it ascends towards heaven. [ J. Paul F. Richter ]
Rivers flow with sweet waters; but, having joined the ocean, they become undrinkable. [ Hitopadesa ]
Love is strong as death. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it. [ Bible ]
The words of a man's mouth are as deep waters, and the well-spring of wisdom as a flowing brook. [ Bible ]
More bounteous run rivers when the ice that locked their flow melts into their waters. And when fine natures relent, their kindness is swelled by the thaw. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
What is life? A gulf of troubled waters, where the soul, like a vexed bark, is tossed upon the waves of pain and pleasure by the wavering breath of passions. [ Miss L. E. Landon ]
O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea. Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free, Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam. Survey our empire, and behold our home! [ Byron ]
Nor is a day lived if the dawn is left out of it, with the prospects it opens. Who speaks charmingly of nature or of mankind, like him who comes bibulous of sunrise and the fountains of waters? [ Alcott ]
If life has not made you by God's grace, through faith, holy - think you, will death without faith do it? The cold waters of that narrow stream are no purifying bath in which you may wash and be clean. No! no! as you go down into them, you will come up from them. [ Alexander Maclaren ]
Nature, at all events, humanly speaking, is manifestly very fond of color; for she has made nothing without it. Her skies are blue; her fields, green; her waters vary with her skies; her animals, vegetables, minerals, are all colored. She paints a great many of them in apparently superfluous hues, as if to show the dullest eye how she loves color. [ Leigh Hunt ]
All are to be men of genius in their degree, - rivulets or rivers, it does not matter, so that the souls be clear and pure; not dead walls encompassing dead heaps of things, known and numbered, but running waters in the sweet wilderness of things unnumbered and unknown, conscious only of the living banks, on which they partly refresh and partly reflect the flowers, and so pass on. [ Ruskin ]
Some men of a secluded and studious life have sent forth from their closet or their cloister rays of intellectual light that have agitated courts and revolutionized kingdoms; like the moon which, though far removed from the ocean, and shining upon it with a serene and sober light, is the chief cause of all those ebbings and flowings which incessantly disturb that restless world of waters. [ Colton ]
The repose necessary to all beauty is repose, not of inanition, nor of luxury, nor of irresolution, but the repose of magnificent energy and being; in action, the calmness of trust and determination; in rest, the consciousness of duty accomplished and of victory won; and this repose and this felicity can take place as well in the midst of trial and tempest, as beside the waters of comfort. [ Ruskin ]