“Why sip from a tea cup, when you can drink from the river.”
Steve Martin (1945) American actor, comedian, musician, author, playwright, and producer
Source: L.A. Story and Roxanne: Screenplays
"Underground".
2000s, Relapse (2009)
“Why sip from a tea cup, when you can drink from the river.”
Steve Martin (1945) American actor, comedian, musician, author, playwright, and producer
Source: L.A. Story and Roxanne: Screenplays
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
(8th February 1823) Medallion Wafers: Hercules and Iole
22nd February 1823) Leander and Hero see The Vow of the Peacock (1835
1st March 1823) An Old Man over the Body of his Son see The Vow of the Peacock (1835
The London Literary Gazette, 1823
Anne Brontë book The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XLV : Reconciliation; Helen to Gilbert
Molly Ivins (1944–2007) American journalist
W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911) English librettist of the Gilbert & Sullivan duo
The Yeomen of the Guard (1888)
Johnny Cash (1932–2003) American singer-songwriter
Song lyrics, American IV: The Man Comes Around (2002), The Man Comes Around
“Sipping once, sipping twice, sipping chicken soup with rice.”
Maurice Sendak (1928–2012) American illustrator and writer of children's books
Source: Chicken Soup With Rice: A Book of Months