Famous quotes containing the words beecher, metropolitan and/or water:
“Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.”
—Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)
“In metropolitan cases, the love of the most single-eyed lover, almost invariably, is nothing more than the ultimate settling of innumerable wandering glances upon some one specific object.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“Iron which is not whetted will grow rusty; water which does not flow will become stagnant.”
—Chinese proverb.