“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.”
François Andrieux (1759–1833) French man of letters and playwright
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.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“Much water goeth by the mill
That the miller knoweth not of.”
John Heywood (1497–1580) English writer known for plays, poems and a collection of proverbs
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.”
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
Section 3, member 4, subsection 1.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
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.”
David Bowie (1947–2016) British musician, actor, record producer and arranger
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 <br class="br">Variant: I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir.