Pierian Spring Quotes

#1. A little learning is a dangerous thing.
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring;
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
and drinking largely sobers us again.

Alexander Pope

#2. (Alexander Pope: "A little learning is a dangerous thing; / Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.")

Paul Kalanithi

#3. Women are like tea bags.They do not know how strong they are until they get into hot water.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#4. I couldn't spell anything. I couldn't remember anything, but I could go to a movie and I knew who starred in it, who directed it, everything.

Quentin Tarantino

#5. Kindness is the greatest love,
it is the healing touch,
it is the light of our soul,
it is a message from the heart.

Debasish Mridha

#6. Every poet knows the pun is Pierian, that it springs from the same soil as the Muse?a matching and shifting of vowels and consonants, an adroit assonance sometimes derided as jackassonance.

Louis Untermeyer

#7. We didn't yet know about undertows and rip currents, the many ways the ocean can turn on you.

Patricia Engel

#8. To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.

Simone Weil

#9. I'd like to be proven wrong firstly on the difficulty of building a self-sustaining closed circuit ecosystem in space that can support human life.

Charles Stross

#10. It doesn't matter who you are. Everyone's fear is equal.

Bryant McGill

#11. The sexual revolution produced cultural convulsions that were unparalleled in the 20th century. The female sex was historically sexualized and required to have orgasms for the first time. Sexual "deviants," particularly homosexuals, achieved partial emancipation.

Volkmar Sigusch

#12. Possibly in the lobby she saw someone who reminded her too much of herself (that can happen to inexperienced travelers). Or worse. That no one there reminded her of anyone she ever knew.

Richard Ford

#13. If I could control the behavior of fat guys I would make them ride mopeds more often.

Demetri Martin