Damp Quotes

124 quotes by 100 authors

I'm really terrible with small children; they're small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy. — Ian Anderson
Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven. — John Donne
It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank clothed with many plants of many kinds with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting… — Charles Darwin
We have far too many kids. At one time in the playpen there was standing-room only. It looked like a bus stop for midgets. It… — Phyllis Diller
Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus: one morning… — Friedrich Nietzsche
When I was a beggarly boy, And lived in a cellar damp, I had not a friend nor a toy, But I had Aladdin's lamp... — James Russell Lowell
For all things are baptized at the font of eternity, and beyond good and evil; good and evil themselves, however, are but intervening shadows and… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Even her hair, she thought, running her fingers impatiently through the damp golden brown ringlets that curled romantically around her face. A Botticelli angel, a… — Naomi Ragen
Days go by when I do nothing but underline the damp edge of myself. — Mary Szybist
If any man has drunk a little too deeply from the cup of physical pleasure; if he has spent too much time at his desk… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
I am reminded, now, of Leonardo's advice to painters: You should fix your eyes, he says, on certain walls stained with damp. You will see… — Ciaran Carson
I know of no place where the wind can be as icy and the damp so penetrating as in Oxford round about Easter time. — Vera Brittain
I have my fears. Yet, notwithstanding the complicated difficulties that rise before us, there is no receding; and I should blush if in any instance… — Mercy Otis Warren
My heart is in a world of water and crystal, My clothes are damp in this time of spring rains. — Du Fu
From every Englishman emanates a kind of gas, the deadly choke-damp of boredom. — Heinrich Heine
The Annex is an ideal place to hide in. It may be damp and lopsided, but there's probably not a more comfortable hiding place in… — Anne Frank
As bronze may be much beautified by lying in the dark damp soil, so men who fade in dust of warfare fade fairer, and sorrow… — Wilfred Owen
You might find it difficult to see anything but your own sadness, the way smoke can cover a landscape so that all anyone can see… — Daniel Handler
Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of… — Malcolm De Chazal
Republicans know well that a change of rhetorical pace is necessary. But efforts by their leaders to damp down the bellicosity of newly elected Tea… — Alexander Cockburn

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