“Silence is deep as Eternity, speech is shallow as Time.”
“Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.”
How to Talk With Practically Anybody About Practically Anything (1970).
“I may be shallow, but my thoughts are deep.”
Ron English's Fauxlosophy (2016)
“Silence is deep as Eternity, Speech is shallow as Time.”
“Study hard, for the well is deep, and our brains are shallow.”
Source: The Reformed Pastor
“Mystical explanations are considered deep; the truth is, they are not even shallow.”
Sec. 126; variant translation: Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.
The Gay Science (1882)
“Choke me in the shallow water before I get too deep.”
"What I Am"; the earliest references to this clearly indicate "choke" is the word used in the song; since then "chuck me" and "shove me" have sometimes appeared in internet renditions of the lyrics.
Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars (1988)
“Rigid distinctions between the deep and the shallow are generally themselves quite superficial.”
Section 5, “Food , Book Reviews, Sports, Obituaries” Introduction (p. 169)
A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper (1995)
“In the deep discovery of the Subterranean world, a shallow part would satisfy some enquirers.”
Source: Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial (1658), Chapter I
“Our passions are most like to floods and streams;
The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.”
Sir Walter Raleigh to the Queen (published 1655); alternately reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919) as:
"Passions are likened best to floods and streams:
The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb"
and titled The Silent Lover. Compare: "Altissima quæque flumina minimo sono labi", (translated: "The deepest rivers flow with the least sound"), Q. Curtius, vii. 4. 13. "Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep", William Shakespeare, 2 Henry VI. act iii. sc. i.
