Cups Quotes - Page 35

• The bitter dregs of Fortune's cup to drain.

  Homer

  Bitter, Fortune, Drains

  Homer (1760). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.11

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• I feel as a horse must feel when the beautiful cup is given to the jockey.

  Edgar Degas

  Beautiful, Horse, Jockeys

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• A Mathematician is someone who can take a cup of coffee and turn it into a theory.

  Paul Erdos

  Coffee, Mathematics, Theory

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• Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning's gentle wine! Nature waits upon thee still, And thy verdant cup does fill; 'Tis fill'd wherever thou dost tread, Nature's self's thy Ganymede.

  Abraham Cowley

  Morning, Wine, Self

  Abraham Cowley (1772). “Select works of mr. A. Cowley [ed. by R. Hurd].”, p.148

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• Such a slender moon, going up and up, Waxing so fast from night to night, And swelling like an orange flower-bud, bright, Fated, methought, to round as to a golden cup, And hold to my two lips life's best of wine.

  Jean Ingelow

  Flower, Wine, Moon

  Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.131

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• I love football, but I'm sick of the World Cup. I don't even care about England.

  Elton John

  Football, Sick, World

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• If you approach the ocean with a cup, you can only take away a cupful; if you approach it with a bucket you can take away a bucketful.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Ocean, Buckets, Abundance

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• I'm singing 'English Tea' from my new album 'Chaos and Creation in the Backyard.' I have a cup of tea in the morning, so it's something good to wake up to.

  Paul McCartney

  Morning, Tea, Singing

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• Many things happen between the cup and the upper lip.

  Aulus Gellius

  Lips, Fortune, Happens

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 289-93, Translation of Greek Proverb, Book XIII. 17. 3, 1922.

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• Being an ex-England manager, one that failed to qualify for the World Cup, is like being a dead politician.

  Graham Taylor

  World, England, Politician

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• It's a nice bonus but, you know, I have to pay taxes too. (after winning the Grand Slam Cup.

  Venus Williams

  Sports, Nice, Winning

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• For years I was an undiagnosed anorexic, suffering from a little-known variant of the disease, where, freakishly, the appetite turns in on itself and demands more and more food, forcing the sufferer to gain several stones in weight and wear men's V-necked pullovers. My condition has stabilised now, but I can never stray too far from cocoa-based products and I keep a small cracknel-type candy in my brassiere at all times. Fortunately, I wear a 'D' cup so there is plenty of room for sweetmeats.

  Victoria Wood

  Men, Years, Suffering

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• Sisters define their rivalry in terms of competition for the gold cup of parental love. It is never perceived as a cup which runneth over, rather a finite vessel from which the more one sister drinks, the less is left over for the others.

  Elizabeth Fishel

  Friendship, Competition, Gold

  Elizabeth Fishel (1997). “Sisters: Shared Histories, Lifelong Ties”, Red Wheel

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• I scored in a World Cup and I want that buzz again.

  Jermain Defoe

  World, Want, Buzz

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• Why would I get a wild card into an American tournament, (as the) top-ranked American? Why would that happen? That makes too much sense. Maybe I should play more Davis Cup, that's the story. Oh wait, I do.

  Andy Roddick

  Play, Waiting, Cards

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• I remember World Cups in 1982 and 1986 when we weren't there and we'd support Belgium or Denmark, .. They had some players who played in Holland and they were a bit like the Dutch.

  Simon Kuper

  Player, Support, Denmark

  "Dutch Orange men get the blues" by Simon Hooper, www.cnn.com. May 10, 2002.

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• They always lose when it matters (getting it wrong about England in the rugby world cup final 2003).

  Bernard Laporte

  Finals, World, Matter

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• The World Cup was a huge frustration because I had prepared really hard for it. But in the World Cup there is no formula, no recipe for success.

  Kaka

  Frustration, World, Recipes

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• Maybe the given person, cup, or landscape is lost before one gets to painting. A figure exerts a continuing and unspecified influence on a painting as the canvas develops. The represented forms are loaded with psychological feeling. It can't ever just be painting.

  Richard Diebenkorn

  Feelings, Landscape, Painting

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• What we need is a cup of understanding, a barrel of love, and an ocean of patience.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Ocean, Understanding, Saint

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• What is the mark of a Christian? That he be purified of all defilement of the flesh and of the spirit in the Blood of Christ, perfecting sanctification in the fear of God and the love of Christ, and that he have no blemish nor spot nor any such thing; that he be holy and blameless and so eat the Body of Christ and drink His Blood; for 'he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh judgement to himself.' What is the mark of those who eat the Bread and drink the Cup of Christ? That they keep in perpetual remembrance Him who died for us and rose again.

  Saint Basil

  Christian, Blood, Rose

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• Being satisfied to drink the dregs from the cup of human progress will not demonstrate our fitness as a people to exist alongside of others, but when of our own initiative we strike out to build industries, governments, and ultimately empires, then and only then will we as a race prove to our creator and to man in general that we are fit to survive and capable of shaping our own destiny.

  Marcus Garvey

  Destiny, Men, Race

  Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.10, Ravenio Books

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• The green earth sends her incense up. From many a mountain shrine; From folded leaf and dewey cup She pours her sacred wine.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Wine, Mountain, Earth

  John Greenleaf Whittier, “The Worship Of Nature”

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• Till the first friend dies, we think our ecstasy impersonal, but then discover that he was the cup from which we drank it, itself as yet unknown.

  Emily Dickinson

  Friendship, Thinking, Firsts

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.2352, Delphi Classics

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• As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but Nature's sources never fail. Like a generous host, she offers her brimming cups in endless variety, served in a grand hall, the sky its ceiling, the mountains its walls, decorated with glorious paintings and enlivened with bands of music ever playing.

  John Muir

  Wall, Sky, Mountain

  John Muir (1973). “The American Wilderness: In the Words of John Muir”

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