“Oh seize the instant time; you never will
With waters once passed by impel the mill.”
Poems (Ed. 1865), p. 303. Proverbs, Turkish and Persian.
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“Princes' sports are these:
A mill they'll spare: a province they will seize.”
Ce sont là jeux de prince:
On respecte un moulin: on vole une province.
Le Meunier de Sans-Souci. (Ed. 1818, Vol. III., p. 208).
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 24.
“153. The mill cannot grind with water that's past.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“Much water goeth by the mill
That the miller knoweth not of.”
Part II, chapter 5.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“The miller sees not all the water that goes by his mill.”
Section 3, member 4, subsection 1.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.
Variant: In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.
Source: Leonardo's Notebooks
“I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir.”
Quoted in the chapter on Bowie http://books.google.com/books?id=iHXT8olyMAsC&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=instant+star in Valentines & Vitriol (1978) by Rex Reed
Variant: I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir.