Chapter WATER to WEEDS of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

WATER to WEEDS

WATER.—Water turned to wine.

St. John, Chap. II. Verse 3-10.

Vidit et erubuit lympha pudica Deum.

Crayshaw.—Epigrammata Sacra, 1634.

The water saw its God, and blushed.

Boswell’s Johnson, 1778.

Reach with your whiter hands to me,
Some crystal of the spring;
And I about the cup shall see
Fresh lilies flourishing.
Or else, sweet nymphs, do you but this,
To the glass your lips incline;
And I shall see, by that one kiss,
The water turn’d to wine.

Herrick.—The Hesperides to the Water Nymph, No. 318.

WAY.—As from the wing no scar the sky retains;
The parted wave no furrow from the keel;
So dies in human hearts the thought of death.

Young.—Night I. Line 430; Proverbs, Chap.XXX. Verse 19.

The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea.

Solomon.—Proverbs, Chap. XXX. Verse 19. Without making any impression. Bacon.—On Henry VII.

WEAKEST.—The weakest goes to the wall.

Shakespeare.—Romeo and Juliet, Act I. Scene I. (Gregory to Samson.)

He that of greatest works is finisher,
Oft does them by the weakest minister;
So holy writ in babes hath judgment shewn,
When judges have been babes.

Shakespeare—All’s Well that Ends Well, Act II. Scene I. (Helena to the King.) See Psalm VIII. Verse 2; Matthew, Chap. XXI. Verse 16; 2 Kings, Chap. V. Verse 3.

WEALTH.—On either side dwells safety and delight;
Wealth on the left, and power on the right.

Cowley.—On Somerset House.

Whose wealth was want; whose plenty made him poor.

Spenser.—The Fairy Queen, Book I. Canto IV. Stanza 29.

Who would not wish to be from wealth exempt,
Since riches point to misery and contempt?

Shakespeare.—Timon of Athens, Act IV. Scene 2. (Flavius.)

WEAR.—Wear this for me.

Shakespeare.—As You Like it, Act I. Scene 2. (Rosalind to Orlando.)

WEARINESS.—Weariness
Can snore upon the flint, when resty sloth
Finds the down-pillow hard.

Shakespeare.—Cymbeline, Act III. Scene 6. (Belarius.)