
“These reasons made his mouth to water.”
Canto III, line 379
Source: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)
Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)
“These reasons made his mouth to water.”
Canto III, line 379
Source: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)
“Her soul in the balance, my heart in her hands
I made her a widow, she made me a man.”
We Know Who Our Enemies Are.
A→B Life (2002)
Death of Phida, Book VIII, line 410
The Odyssey : A Modern Sequel (1938)
“the poisonous world flows into my mouth like water into that of a drowning man”
Source: Diaries of Franz Kafka
Original quote:
For my friend said that he opened his intellect as the sun opens the fans of a palm tree, opening for opening's sake, opening infinitely for ever. But I said that I opened my intellect as I opened my mouth, in order to shut it again on something solid. I was doing it at the moment. And as I truly pointed out, it would look uncommonly silly if I went on opening my mouth infinitely, for ever and ever.
The Extraordinary Cabman, one of many essays collected in Tremendous Trifles (1909)
Misattributed
(Hudson Taylor’s Choice Sayings: A Compilation from His Writings and Addresses. London: China Inland Mission, n.d., 69).
"The Island", in Bulletin of the Garden Club of America (1929), p. 1, also in Collected Poems (1934), p. 54