Muddy Quotes

• Let muddy water stand and it will become clear.

  Laozi

  Water, Clear

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• As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one of the best possible contributions to a world in turmoil.

  Alan Watts

  Freedom, Water, Leaving

  Alan W. Watts (2011). “The Way of Zen”, p.157, Vintage

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• Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

  Alan Watts

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Freedom

  Alan W. Watts (2011). “The Way of Zen”, p.157, Vintage

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• If a frog becomes a king, he will make the whole kingdom muddy!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Kings, Kingdoms, Frogs

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• The seed of mystery lies in muddy water. How can I perceive this mystery? Water becomes clear through stillness. How can I become still? By flowing with the stream.

  Laozi

  Lying, Water, Mystery

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• You are always training yourself to be, mind and body, as clear as crystal, and you always are, and never change; whereas I am a muddy, solitary, moping weed.

  Charles Dickens

  Weed, Character, Interesting

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.8363, Delphi Classics

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• If you got something you don't want other people to know, keep it in your pocket.

  Muddy Waters

  People, Pockets, Want

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• Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Relationship, Marriage, Lakes

  'Melincourt' (1817)

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• The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Flower, Water, Doe

  B. K. S. Iyengar (2016). “Sparks of Divinity: The Teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar”, p.48, Shambhala Publications

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• Invention flags, his brain goes muddy,
  And black despair succeeds brown study.

  William Congreve

  Black, Brain, Despair

  "An Impossible Thing". Poem by William Congreve, 1720.

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• I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory.

  Muddy Waters

  Memories, Long, Causes

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• People should hear the pure blues - the #‎ blues we used to have when we had no money.

  Muddy Waters

  People, Used, Should

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• Theres no way in the world I can feel the same blues the way I used to. When I play in Chicago, Im playing up-to-date, not the blues I was born with. People should hear the pure blues - the blues we used to have when we had no money.

  Muddy Waters

  Money, Play, People

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• Muddy water will become clear if allowed to stand undisturbed, and so too will the mind become clear if it is allowed to be still.

  Ming-Dao Deng

  Water, Mind, Clear

  Ming-Dao Deng (2013). “365 Tao: Daily Meditations”, p.17, Harper Collins

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• I stone got crazy when I saw somebody run down them strings with a bottleneck. My eyes lit up like a Christmas tree and I said that I had to learn.

  Muddy Waters

  Christmas, Running, Crazy

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• Man, you don't know how I felt that afternoon when I heard that VOICE and it was my own VOICE.

  Muddy Waters

  Men, Voice, Afternoon

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• I rambled all the time. I was just like that, like a rollin' stone.

  Muddy Waters

  Stones

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• Saturday night is your big night. Everybody used to fry up fish and have one hell of a time. Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich. And be glad of it. And they really liked the low-down blues.

  Muddy Waters

  Night, Sunrise, Sandwiches

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• That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through.

  Muddy Waters

  Mississippi Delta, Sound, Records

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• I wanted to definitely be a musician or a good preacher or a heck of a baseball player. I couldn't play ball too good - I hurt my finger, and I stopped that. I couldn't preach, and well, all I had left was getting into the music thing.

  Muddy Waters

  Baseball, Hurt, Player

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• Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich.

  Muddy Waters

  Sunrise, Sandwiches, Cents

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• Of course that was my idol, Son House. I think he did a lot for the Mississippi slide down there.

  Muddy Waters

  Son, Thinking, Idols

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• You get a heck of a sound from the church. Can't you hear it in my voice?

  Muddy Waters

  Voice, Church, Sound

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• Truth is compared in Scripture to a streaming fountain; if her waters flow not in perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition.

  John Milton

  Truth, Science, Water

  John Milton (1859). “The prose works of John Milton”, p.183

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• I feel like a midget with muddy feet had been walking over my tongue all night.

  W. C. Fields

  Drinking, Food, Night

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