Famous quotes containing the words big, water and/or creature:
“And about her courts were seen
Liveried angels robed in green,
Wearing, by St Patrick’s bounty,
Emeralds big as half the county.”
—Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)
“Iron which is not whetted will grow rusty; water which does not flow will become stagnant.”
—Chinese proverb.
“This artless young creature [Evelina], with too much beauty to escape notice, has too much sensibility to be indifferent to it; but she has too little wealth to be sought with propriety by men of the fashionable world.”
—Frances Burney (1752–1840)