“Try to be a filter, not a sponge.”
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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“I drink no more than a sponge.”
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Gargantua (1534), Chapter 5.

“How much deeper would the ocean be if sponges didn’t live there?”

“You know how interesting the purchase of a sponge-cake is to me.”
Letter to Cassandra (1808-06-15) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
Letters

“We must pass the great filter!”
Source: 21 June 2020 tweet https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1274614961151414273 and TechFilter https://techstartups.com/2020/06/21/elon-musk-we-must-pass-the-great-filter-social-media-is-a-limbic-amplifier-which-inherently-destabilizes-civilization
“Pray use both cats as sponges if it pleases you, infatuated infantryman.”
Source: Castle in the Air

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Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953)

“He felt like an old sponge steeped in paraffin and left in the sun to dry.”
Source: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency