Cups Quotes - Page 28

• Look not thou on beauty's charming;
  Sit thou still when kings are arming;
  Taste not when the wine-cup glistens;
  Speak not when the people listens

  Walter Scott

  Kings, Wine, People

  Walter Scott, James Reed (2003). “Selected Poems”, p.31, Psychology Press

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• Fill the cup, and fill the can: Have a rouse before the morn: Every moment dies a man, Every moment one is born.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Men, Born, Dies

  1842 Poems,'The Vision of Sin', pt.4, stanza 9, l.95-8.

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• Those of us who have the duty of training the rising generation of doctors...must not inseminate the virgin minds of the young with the tares of our own fads. It is for this reason that it is easily possible for teaching to be too 'up to date'. It is always well, before handing the cup of knowledge to the young, to wait until the froth has settled.

  Sir Robert Hutchison, 1st Baronet

  Education, Teaching, Doctors

  British Medical Journal 1: 995 (1925)

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• Luxury, that alluring pest with fair forehead, which, yielding always to the will of the body, throws a deadening influence over the senses, and weakens the limbs more than the drugs of Circe's cup.

  Claudius Claudianus

  Luxury, Drug, Pests

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• To some characters, fame is like an intoxicating cup placed to the lips,--they do well to turn away from it who fear it will turn their heads. But to others fame is "love disguised," the love that answers to love in its widest, most exalted sense.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Character, Answers, Lips

  Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.2

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• Beware the deadly fumes of that insane elation Which rises from the cup of mad impiety, And go, get drunk with that divine intoxication Which is more sober far than all sobriety.

  William Rounseville Alger

  Drunk, Mad, Sobriety

  William Rounseville Alger (1874). “The Poetry of the Orient”, p.167

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• My cup of sweets is not unmingled: it is dashed with a bitterness that I cannot hide from myself, disguise it as I will.

  Anne Bronte

  Sweet, Bitterness, Disguise

  Anne Bronte (2016). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Diversion Illustrated Classics)”, p.209, Diversion Books

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• Learn to drink the cup of life as it comes.

  Agnes Sligh Turnbull

  Acceptance, One Day, Drink

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• The emphasis in doing any in-depth photography is on building relationships, quality relationships. It's what I call thirty-cups-of-coffee-a-frame photography. You need to enter into the community - not just photographically, but intellectually and emotionally.

  Lynn Johnston

  Photography, Coffee, Community

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• ... bringing up daughters for nothing but marriage, mingles poison in the cup of domestic life, is traitorous to the virtue of both sexes, for neither suffers alone--is adverse to the happiness, to the development of conscience and to religion, and introduces to the dwellings of wretchedness and despair. The result of this degradation is pride, intemperance, licentiousness--nay, every vice, misery, and degradation.

  Harriot Kezia Hunt

  Daughter, Sex, Pride

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• The UEFA Cup is now what we focus on. It's a huge game for us in Rome and it's all to play for.

  Mark Viduka

  Games, Play, Rome

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• Not every man can carry a full cup. Sudden elevation frequently leads to pride and a fall. The most exacting test of all to survive is prosperity.

  Oswald Chambers

  Fall, Pride, Men

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• As you forget self in service to others, you will find that, without seeking it, your own cup of happiness will be full.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Self, Forget, Service To Others

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• I will not go a day without coconut oil. I personally take four tablespoons per day, either on my salads, in my cooking or in my cups of green tea.

  Miranda Kerr

  Oil, Cooking, Tea

  "Experts Doubt Coconut Oil Will Give You a Body Like Miranda Kerr", www.foxnews.com. August 26, 2011.

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• If you put a spoonful of salt in a cup of water it tastes very salty. If you put a spoonful of salt in a lake of fresh water the taste is still pure and clear. Peace comes when our hearts are open like the sky, vast as the ocean.

  Jack Kornfield

  Ocean, Heart, Lakes

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• I bless the Lord that all our troubles come through Christ's fingers, and that He casteth sugar among them and casteth in some ounce withts of heaven and of the spirit of glory in our cup.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Heaven, Sugar, Spirit

  Samuel Rutherford (1824). “Joshua redivivus: or, three hundred and fifty two religious letters ... To which is added, the Author's testimony to the covenanted work of reformation, between 1638 and 1649 ... As also, a large preface and postscript ... by the Rev. Mr. McWard. The tenth edition”, p.106

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• I am naturally extremely proud to be selected as European Ryder Cup captain for 2016, european Ryder Cup has been a massive part of my life and my career so to have the chance to lead Europe next year is a huge honor.

  Darren Clarke

  Life, Years, Europe

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• I was a 36C or D, and at 5' 1'', I knew that being a small person with big boobs standing in front of an audience was not going to be easy. It would be really hard to get people to pay attention to me without mocking me. Getting a breast reduction to prepare for my career was no different from people who work to get good grades to get into a good college to get into a good graduate school to get a good job. I went down to a B cup, and it was the best thing in the whole world.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Jobs, School, College

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• People say to me, Hey, Bill, the war made us feel better about ourselves. Really? What kind of people are these with such low self-esteem that they need a war to feel better about themselves? May I suggest, instead of a war to feel better about yourself, perhaps... sit-ups? Maybe a fruit cup? Eight glasses of water a day?

  Bill Hicks

  Self Esteem, War, Feel Better

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• We need to go there and make sure we bring that cup home. and if we do succeed, then we'll dedicate it to the fans that have waited so patiently since 1984. 
  (on the Champions League)

  Steven Gerrard

  Home, Champions League, Fans

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• The FA Cup is still domestically the best cup in the world.

  Glenn Hoddle

  World, England, Stills

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• I'm at my most productive before I even have my first cup of coffee. I only get slower and stupider as the day progresses.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Coffee, Progress, Firsts

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• At the start of the season you're strong enough to win the Premiership and the European Cup, but you have to be as strong in March, when the fish are down.

  Gianluca Vialli

  Strong, Winning, March

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• Don't assume you're always going to be understood. I wrote in a column that one should put a cup of liquid in the cavity of a turkey when roasting it. Someone wrote me that 'the turkey tasted great, but the plastic cup melted.

  Heloise

  Turkeys, Liquid, Assuming

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• Clay is molded to form a cup, But it is on its non-being that the utility of the cup depends. Doors and windows are cut out to make a room, But it is on its non-being that the utility of the room depends. Therefore turn being into advantage, and turn non-being into utility.

  Laozi

  Cutting, Doors, Clay

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