Fountain Quotes

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig. (Marcus Aurelius)
There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age. View quote
Sophia Loren
My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane. View quote
Graham Greene
A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles. View quote
Washington Irving
The fountain of death makes the still waters of life play. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
A film is a petrified fountain of thought. View quote
Jean Cocteau
The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises. View quote
Sigmund Freud
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. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle. View quote
Robert Anthony
The cistern contains: the fountain overflows. View quote
William Blake
She gave me eyes, she gave me ears And humble cares, and delicate fears A heart, the fountain of sweet tears And love and thought and joy. (William Wordsworth)
In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers. View quote
Lucretius
Like the dew on the mountain, Like the foam on the river, Like the bubble on the fountain, Thou art gone, and for ever. View quote
Walter Scott
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain. View quote
John Locke
Elton wanted a garden. They were building all afternoon while we were rehearsing. And then they built a fountain for Elton. And he said, I was only joking! View quote
Maurice Gibb
It is difficult to describe in short the enthusiasm and devotion provoked by and given to my research. We lived almost in poverty. I used pencils, two for a nickel, and could not buy a fountain pen, when I lost mine. View quote
Immanuel Velikovsky
And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face. View quote
Venerable Bede
From the accession of Henry the Seventh to the breaking out of the civil wars, England enjoyed much greater exemption from war, foreign and domestic, than for a long period before, and during the controversy between the houses of York and Lancaster. These years of peace were favorable to commerce and the arts. Commerce and the arts augmented general and individual knowledge; and knowledge is the only fountain, both of the love and the principles of human liberty. View quote
Daniel Webster
As the people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived, it seems strictly consonant to the republican theory, to recur to the same original authority, not only whenever it may be necessary to enlarge, diminish, or new-model the powers of the government, but also whenever any one of the departments may commit encroachments on the chartered authorities of the others. View quote
James Madison
Be like the fountain that overflows, not like the cistern that merely contains. View quote
Paulo Coelho
There is no fountain for youth. What you put in your body is what you get out of it. You would not feed your dog a coffee and doughnut for breakfast followed by a cigarette you will kill the damn dog. (Jack LaLanne)
The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of THE CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE. The streams of national power ought to flow from that pure, original fountain of all legitimate authority. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
Slang is a foul pool at which every dunce fills his bucket, and then sets up as a fountain. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
There is a fountain filled with blood Drawn from Emmanuel's veins And sinners, plunged beneath that flood, Lose all their guilty stains. View quote
William Cowper
I'm a fountain of blood in the shape of a girl ... leave me now return tonight tide will show you the way if you forget my name you will go astray like a killer whale trapped in a bay. View quote
Björk