Casks Quotes

#1. It is the characteristic of great poems that they will yield of their sense in due proportion to the hasty and the deliberate reader. To the practical they will be common sense, and to the wise wisdom; as either the traveler may wet his lips, or an army may fill its water-casks at a full stream.

Henry David Thoreau

#2. Now to rivulets from the mountains Point the rods of fortune-tellers; Youth perpetual dwells in fountains, Not in flasks, and casks, and cellars.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#3. The bookstore had no musty "old books" smell, and instead it had a nice oaky aroma, similar to the way Laurence imagined the whiskey casks would be before you put Scotch into them for aging. This was a place where you would age well.

Charlie Jane Anders

#4. Now, if we only had as many casks of butter as there are people here, then I would eat lots of butter!

Hans Christian Andersen

#5. Hauled up our wine-casks, and hove them overboard, tied one to the other by a long line. Then the crew took to the boats and rowed shorewards, singing as they went, and drawing after them the long bobbing procession of casks, like

Kenneth Grahame

#6. Ten thousand casks, Forever dribbling out their base contents, Touch'd by the Midas finger of the state, Bleed gold for ministers to sport away. Drink, and be mad then; 'tis your country bids!

William Cowper

#7. A dozen great fires raged under the city walls, where casks of burning pitch had exploded, but the wildfire reduced them to no more than candles in a burning house, their orange and scarlet pennons fluttering insignificantly against the jade holocaust.

George R R Martin

#8. One catches more flies with a spoonful of honey that with twenty casks of vinegar.

Henry IV Of France

#9. They grieved for those who perished with the cutter, and also for the biscuit casks and butter.

George Gordon Byron

#10. It's important to know that if you are dealing with shadows.

Conrad Hall

#11. It didn't seem to matter how much he resented Percy Jackson; Nico would do anything for him. He hated himself for that.

Rick Riordan

#12. Africa touches me. At night, there's this thought in your brain that a million years ago we started here.

Hasso Plattner

#13. What generally happens in this county is that our politicians don't serve us well because they don't tell the truth, and they don't keep their promises.

Peter Garrett

#14. It is not what we have that will make us a great nation; it is the way in which we use it.

Teddy Roosevelt

#15. When the mind opens by speaking denials, this true Self that philosophers have so long striven to free shows itself all glorious with wisdom, strength, and holiness ... Denial of evil is a word of Truth.

Myrtle Fillmore

#16. In this business, it takes all the running you can do just to stay in the same place. The

Gerald M. Weinberg