Muddy Quotes - Page 3

• Spring slattern of seasons
  you have soggy legs
  and a muddy petticoat
  drowsy
  
  is your hair your
  eyes are sticky with
  dream and you have a sloppy body from
  
  being brought to bed of crocuses
  when you sing in your whisky voice
  the grass rises on the head of the earth
  and all the trees are put on edge
  
  spring
  of the excellent jostle of
  thy hips
  and the superior

  e. e. cummings

  Dream, Spring, Eye

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• O Helena, goddess, nymph, perfect, divine! To what, my love, shall I compare thine eyne? Crystal is muddy. O, how ripe in show Thy lips, those kissing cherries, tempting grow!

  William Shakespeare

  Kissing, Nymphs, Perfect

  William Shakespeare, Trevor R. Griffiths (1996). “A Midsummer Night's Dream”, p.159, Cambridge University Press

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• Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Be still and allow the mud to settle.

  Laozi

  Patience, Knowledge, Water

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• In vain people busy themselves with finding any good of man's own in his will. For any mixture of the power of freewill that men strive to mingle with God's grace is nothing but a corruption of grace. It is just as if one were to dilute wine with muddy, bitter water.

  John Calvin

  Wine, Men, Water

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• How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears; soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica: look, how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold; There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins. Such harmony is in immortal souls; But whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Sleep, Angel

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 5, sc. 1, l. 54

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• A woman moved is like a fountain troubled, Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty.

  William Shakespeare

  Women, Taming, Shrews

  'The Taming Of The Shrew' (1592) act 5, sc. 2, l. 143

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• May 12-13: Sowed Hemp at Muddy hole by Swamp. August 7: Began to separate the Male from the Female at Do - rather too late.

  George Washington

  August, Males, Female

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• Passion is lifted from the earth itself by the muddy hands of the young; it travels along grass-stained sleeves to the heart. If we are going to save environmentalism and the environment, we must also save an endangered indicator species: the child in nature.

  Richard Louv

  Nature, Children, Passion

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• Obscure, like muddy waters.

  Laozi

  Water, Taoism, Obscure

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• So I went out and bought Hard Again by Muddy Waters. That was a big learning curve. I listened to that album again and again and again. James Cotton was the harmonica player on that album.

  Sonny Terry

  Player, Curves, Water

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• If water stands motionless in a pool it grows stale and muddy, but when it moves and flows it becomes clear: so, too, man in his wanderings.

  Muhammad Asad

  Moving, Men, Water

  Muhammad Asad (1954). “The Road To Mecca”, p.57, The Book Foundation

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• To have regret is to be disappointed with yourself and your choices. Those who are wise, see their life like stepping stones across a great river. Everyone misses a stone from time to time. No one can cross the river without getting wet. Success is measured by your arrival on the other side, not on how muddy your shoes are. Regrets are only felt by those who do not understand life’s purpose. They become so disillusioned that they stand still in the river and do not take the next leap.

  Colleen Houck

  Wise, Regret, Shoes

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• This whole thing about winning and losing is muddy waters. But I can remember, as a young actor, just walking around this city and not being able to get arrested.

  Jeffrey Tambor

  Winning, Walking Away, Cities

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• It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.

  Keith Richards

  Song, Play, Water

  FaceBook post by Keith Richards from Feb 27, 2013

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• Such a muddy line between the things you want/And the things you have to do.

  Sheryl Crow

  Desire, Lines, Want

  Song: Leaving Las Vegas, Album: Tuesday Night Music Club, 1993

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• Muddy language is not confined to policies alone. Each of you has seen replies to simple questions in which the meaning was lost through hopelessly obscure wording. When a person writes to the Veterans Administration, he is entitled to an easily understood, frank, and courteous reply. If our replies cannot be understood, they are not only not worth writing, but they simply create additional work.

  Omar N. Bradley

  Writing, Simple, Government

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• The hunter for aphorisms on human nature has to fish in muddy water, and he is even condemned to find much of his own mind.

  F. H. Bradley

  Water, Mind, Hunters

  "Aphorisms". Book by F. H. Bradley, 1930.

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• The thing which seems so glorious when viewed from the heights of the country's cause looks so muddy when seen from the bottom. One begins by getting angry and then feels disgusted.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Country, Looks, Height

  Rabindranath Tagore (2016). “The Home and the World”, p.70, Rabindranath Tagore

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• Hardly a day goes by without me sticking on a Muddy Waters record.

  Rory Gallagher

  Water, Records

  "Guinness Rockopedia". Book by David Roberts, pp. 168-169, 1998.

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• You have sole ownership of your vision. And the Universe will give you what you want within your vision. What happens with most people is that they muddy their vision with “reality”. Their vision becomes full of not only what they want but what everybody else thinks about what they want, too. Your work is to clarify and purify your vision so that the vibration that you are offering can then be answered.

  Esther Hicks

  Reality, Thinking, Offering

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• I would advise you, Sir, to study algebra, if you are not an adept already in it: your head would get less muddy, and you will leave off tormenting your neighbours about paper and packthread, while we all live together in a world that is bursting with sin and sorrow.

  Samuel Johnson

  Sorrow, Together, Would Be

  "Johnsoniana, Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. Johnson".

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• Listen, the story of the United States is this: One kid, without anything, walks out of his house, down the road, with nothing but a guitar and conquers the world. And we've done that again, and again, and again – Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Jimmy Rogers, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters.

  T Bone Burnett

  Kids, Guitar, Conquer The World

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• Let's work and rest happily, abandon us to the course of life; let's run out the muddy and rotten water of the daily thinking and within the Void will flow the Gnosis and with it, the Joy for living.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Running, Thinking, Gnosis

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• God has taken four guys that look like five miles of muddy road and made them famous in the TV world.

  Si Robertson

  Taken, Guy, Looks

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• A muddy little stream, a village grown unfamiliar with time and trees. I turn around and retrace my way up Main Street and park and have a Coke in the confectionery store. It is run by a Greek, as it used to be, but whether the same Greek or another I would not know. He does not recognize me, nor I him. Only the smell of his place is familiar, syrupy with old delights, as if the ghost of my first banana split had come close to breathe on me.

  Wallace Stegner

  Running, Smell, Tree

  Wallace Stegner (2000). “Wolf Willow: A History, a Story, and a Memory of the Last Plains Frontier”, p.29, Penguin

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