“Memory is a net; one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook; but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.”
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858)
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Poet, essayist, physician 1809–1894Related quotes
“people run from rain but
sit
in bathtubs full of
water.”
Source: The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966
Source: Facing the Lion, Being the Lion: Finding Inner Courage Where It Lives
“All is fish that comth to net.”
Part I, chapter 11.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“He murmurs near the running brooks
A music sweeter than their own.”
Stanza 10.
A Poet's Epitaph (1799)
“As fish cannot live without water, so guerrillas cannot live without the people.”
With the century, vol. 5
“Hardly a day goes by without me sticking on a Muddy Waters record.”
[David, Roberts, 1998, Guinness Rockopedia, 1st, Guinness Publishing Ltd., London, 168-169, 0-85112-072-5]
By Gallagher
“They may the better fish in the water when it is troubled.”
Chronicles (I, 283).