#fountain

From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers. ↗

— Lucretius

#bitterness #delight #flowers #fountain #heart

In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers. ↗

— Lucretius

#bitter #flowers #fountain #midst #something

From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born. ↗

— Michelangelo

#delight #every #fountain #gentle #pain

When I get through tearing a lobster apart, or one of those tender West Coast octopuses, I feel like I had a drink from the fountain of youth. ↗

— Joseph Mitchell

#coast #drink #feel #fountain #get

The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do. ↗

— Nan Fairbrother

#feel #fountain #hardest #learning #like

My countrymen have commissioned a bust of the Republic. It will be placed on the fountain of my native town. ↗

— Camille Claudel

#commissioned #countrymen #fountain #native #placed

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#discover #find #fountain #joy #youth

The last book I read was the book I've been rereading most of my life, The Fountainhead. ↗

— Vince Vaughn

#book #fountainhead #i #last #life

Elton wanted a garden. They were building all afternoon while we were rehearsing. And then they built a fountain for Elton. And he said, I was only joking! ↗

— Maurice Gibb

#building #built #elton #fountain #garden

My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane. ↗

— Graham Greene

#connected #course #does #filling #fingers