“Be like the fountain that overflows, not like the cistern that merely contains.”
Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist
Source: Veronika Decides to Die
“An organic system is like a fountain balanced upon a pyramid of fountains.”
Source: Human relations in the restaurant industry. 1948, p. 49
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“A film is a petrified fountain of thought.”
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Esquire magazine (February 1961)
“The cistern contains: the fountain overflows.”
William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
Source: 1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793), Proverbs of Hell, Line 35
