Beecher Metropolitan Water

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)

    Oh, a friend! How true is that old saying, that the enjoyment of one is sweeter and more necessary than that of the elements of water and fire!
    Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)