Domestic Hot Water

Famous quotes containing the words hot water, domestic, hot and/or water:

    “A woman is like a teabag—only in hot water do you realize how strong she is.”
    —Nancy Reagan (b. 1923)

    “Let me obtain forgiveness of thee, Samson,
    Afford me place to shew what recompence
    Towards thee I intend for what I have misdone,
    Misguided; only what remains past cure
    Bear not too sensibly, nor still insist
    To afflict thy self in vain: though sight be lost,
    Life yet hath many solaces, enjoy’d
    Where other senses want not their delights
    At home in leisure and domestic ease,”
    —John Milton (1608–1674)

    “Is your blood
    So madly hot that no discourse of reason,
    Nor fear of bad success in a bad cause,
    Can qualify the same?”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Milton says, that the lyric poet may drink wine and live generously, but the epic poet, he who shall sing of the gods, and their descent unto men, must drink water out of a wooden bowl. For poetry is not “Devil’s wine,” but God’s wine.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)