Domestic Hot Water

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

    “As a bathtub lined with white porcelain,
    When the hot water gives out or goes tepid,
    So is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion,
    O my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady.”
    —Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

    “Man makes very much such a nest for his domestic animals, of withered grass and fodder, as the squirrels and many other wild creatures do for themselves.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Like to the time o’ th’ year between the extremes
    Of hot and cold, he was nor sad nor merry.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Our star was brighter perhaps when it had water in it.
    Now there is no question even of that, but only
    Of holding on to the hard earth so as not to get thrown off,
    With an occasional dream, a vision ...”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)