“Three coins in a fountain
Each one seeking happiness
Thrown by three hopeful lovers
Which one will the fountain bless?”
Three Coins in a Fountain (1954)
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Sammy Cahn7
American lyricist, songwriter, musician 1913–1993Related quotes
“You, Honor, you first veiled
The fountains of delight,
Denying those waves to the thirsting lovers.”
Tu prima, Onor, velasti
La fonte dei diletti,
Negando l'onde a l'amorosa sete.
Act I, Choro, line 358.
Aminta (1573)
Maria Montessori (1870–1952) Italian pedagogue, philosopher and physician
Source: The Absorbent Mind (1949), Ch. 27 : The Teacher's Preparation, p. 283; part of this has become paraphrased as :
Context: One who has drunk at the fountain of spiritual happiness says good-by of his own accord to the satisfactions that come from a higher professional status … What is the greatest sign of success for a teacher thus transformed? It is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."
Herman Cain (1945) American writer, businessman and activist
pp. 24-25 http://books.google.com/books?id=hdhWF9bVqXwC&pg=PA24 <br class="br">2010s, This is Herman Cain!: My Journey to the White House (2011)
“An organic system is like a fountain balanced upon a pyramid of fountains.”
William Foote Whyte (1914–2000) American sociologist
Source: Human relations in the restaurant industry. 1948, p. 49
Ann-Marie MacDonald book Fall on Your Knees
Variant: To believe and yet to have no hope is to thirst beside a fountain.
Source: Fall on Your Knees
Clive Staples Lewis book Mere Christianity
Book IV, Chapter 4, "Good Infection"
Mere Christianity (1952)
Context: They [Christians] believe that the living, dynamic activity of love has been going on in God forever and has created everything else. And that, by the way, is perhaps the most important difference between Christianity and all other religions: that in Christianity God is not an impersonal thing nor a static thing—not even just one person—but a dynamic pulsating activity, a life, a kind of drama, almost, if you will not think me irreverent, a kind of dance … (The) pattern of this three-personal life is … the great fountain of energy and beauty spurting up at the very center of reality.
