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Constant dripping hollows out a stone.


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Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.
OVID Gutta cavat lapidem, non vi, sed saepe cadendo. - A drop of water hollows a stone, not by force, but...
OVID The drop hollows out the stone not by strength, but by constant falling. [Lat., Gutta cavat lapid...
PLUTARCH The drop hollows the stone not by force but by often falling.
OVID Constant dropping wears away a stone. -mid 13th; earlier in Greek
ENGLISH PROVERB Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS In the works of Lucretius, we find two reasons why we shouldn
ALAIN DE BOTTON Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop t...
ANTHONY TROLLOPE In many cases the oil is dripping out of those rocks.
DAVID HOUSEKNECHT Don't pursue something with a vengeful heart, or it will destroy you. Hate wraps a cold hand around ...
DANNIKA DARK You can get the man out of stone-age, but not stone-age out of man.
ABHIJIT NASKAR You can't get blood out of a stone
PROVERB Follow your heart, the money follows", follow money, the heart hollows
KIM TREVETT Visible objects therefore do not perish utterly, since nature repairs one thing from another and all...
TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS The supply of matter in the universe was never more tightly packed than it is now, or more widely sp...
TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS In De Rerum Natura, Lucretius pointed out a very central truth concerning the examined life. That is...
WILLIAM STYRON A man leaves his great house because he's bored
With life at home, and suddenly returns,
F...
TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS Constant use will wear out anything... especially friends.
UNKNOWN By labor fire is got out of stone.
DUTCH PROVERB I was having coffee with my bodyguard. I didn't expect to be hunting bad guys until later. Leather b...
KIM HARRISON Can the law get blood out of a stone? I haven't any money.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM The water was dripping almost to the counter.
LOWELL SMITH It's not a solid wall of flames, ... Its burning up through hollows, as the fire goes upslope, it fa...
EDWARD CALLAHAN I still eat a burger at a counter with ketchup dripping down my face.
SCARLETT JOHANSSON Vineyards and shining harvests, pastures, arbors,
And all this our very utmost toil
Can hard...
LUCRETIUS Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another'...
LUCRETIUS Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in ...
LUCRETIUS The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.
LUCRETIUS The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.
LUCRETIUS The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisf...
LUCRETIUS Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad a...
LUCRETIUS In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
LUCRETIUS We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.
LUCRETIUS Even if I knew nothing of the atoms, I would venture to assert on the evidence of the celestial phen...
LUCRETIUS What is food to one man is bitter poison to others.
LUCRETIUS Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
LUCRETIUS From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst t...
LUCRETIUS Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations ...
LUCRETIUS Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another&...
LUCRETIUS Nothing can be created out of nothing.
LUCRETIUS If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand ...
LUCRETIUS What is food to one, is to others bitter poison.
LUCRETIUS Nothing can be created from nothing.
LUCRETIUS It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
LUCRETIUS The falling drops at last will wear the stone.
LUCRETIUS Life is one long struggle in the dark.
LUCRETIUS Even if I knew nothing of the atoms, I would venture to assert on the evidence of the celestial phen...
LUCRETIUS Nothing can be created out of nothing
LUCRETIUS Love is a product of habit
LUCRETIUS The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by often falling
LUCRETIUS Do you not see even stones yield to the power of time, lofty towers fall to decay, and the rocks mol...
LUCRETIUS Fear was the first thing on earth to make gods
LUCRETIUS Fear is the mother of all gods. Nature does all things without their meddling.
LUCRETIUS What is food to one is to another bitter poison.
LUCRETIUS And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
LUCRETIUS The generations of living things pass in a short time, and like runners hand on the torch of life
LUCRETIUS What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth
LUCRETIUS Nature ever upbuilds one thing from other, suffering naught To come to birth but through some other'...
LUCRETIUS So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
LUCRETIUS Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
LUCRETIUS Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on anothe...
LUCRETIUS The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.
LUCRETIUS For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every alt...
LUCRETIUS From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very ...
LUCRETIUS The sum of all sums is eternity.
LUCRETIUS fear in sooth holds so in check all mortals, because they see many operations go on in earth and hea...
LUCRETIUS Holy mama llama. That’s Nathanial Stone. Nathanial Stone is sitting in my booth. Nathanial Stone i...
D.L. HESS Stones are hollowed out by the constant dropping of water.
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) A foole may throw a stone into a well, which a hundred wise men cannot pull out.
GEORGE HERBERT ..allegation[s] of flirting dripping from his lips like drops from a leaky faucet.
MICHAEL CALLAHAN I was covered in gore, dripping in slime, and in a very bad mood.
LAVIE TIDHAR Constant attention wears the active mind, Blots out our pow'rs, and leaves a blank behind.
CHARLES CHURCHILL A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out
SAUL BELLOW A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.
SAUL BELLOW Queens of the Stone Age: A Stone Unturned.
JOSH HOMME A verbal commit isn't set in stone, ... I thought about waiting it out, but a blown-out knee, there ...
BEN CHANDLER Slowness means cleaving perfectly to time, so closely that the seconds fall one by one, drop by drop...
FRéDéRIC GROS But these are small troubles, people will say. Yes, but they are drops which wear hollows in the roc...
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN Just let me sleep," she grumbled. "Let me sleep, and I'll sign a paper that you're a fucking angel.
KIM HARRISON There were a lot of days I saw that man over there with the sweat just dripping off of him as he was...
DAVE BREON Without a constant livelihood, there will be no constant heart.
UEDA AKINARI Imagine the clouds dripping
Dig a hole in your garden to
put them in
YOKO ONO What torments me is not the humps nor hollows nor the ugliness. It is the sight, a little bit in all...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Life is a lone wolf, scratching out a living with teeth and claws and a heart of stone.
DAN WELLS The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.
VIRGINIA WOOLF The stone that the builder refused to lay should always be the head corners stone. You're a builder ...
BOB MARLEY Constant dedication brings constant prosperity
SUNDAY ADELAJA You gotta catch the sauce. Move with me... I'm dripping sauce.
FUTURE It's torture to do something you don't like. It's a constant, constant drain.
WOODY MILLER Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.
ALBERT CAMUS Only three constants are significant for star formation: the gravitational constant, the fine struct...
IAN STEWART Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise king born of all England.
THOMAS MALORY I only throw a stone if there's a stone thrown at me. As long as there's not a stone thrown at me, y...
BARRY BONDS If you go back and look at President Reagan's speeches, they bring you to tears almost.
LAWRENCE BENDER Sure, 'An Inconvenient Truth' was my first documentary. What a wonderful experience. I saw A...
LAWRENCE BENDER Writing a film is like building a brick wall. You have a plan, and you have the blocks. Then, somebo...
LEIGH BRACKETT Might-have-beens are a bitch.
ORSON SCOTT CARD The constant drip drop of fraudulent activities coming out of Wells Fargo is absolutely outrageous.
MAXINE WATERS All that I ask out of life is that it be constant and unending euphoria.
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