Famous quotes containing the words beecher, metropolitan and/or water:
“Human nature is above all things—lazy.”
—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)
“But the beggar gazes on calamity
And thereafter he belongs to it, to bread
Hard found, and water tasting of misery.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)