Sponge Quotes
95 quotes by 82 authors
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Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred…
— Aeschylus
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Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge…
— Aeschylus
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Children are very smart, in their own stupid way. A child's brain is like a sponge, and you know how smart sponges are.
— Steve Carell
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Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar.
— John Ciardi
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Production was what I always wanted to do, even when I was skating. I'm a bit of a sponge. When I was going around competing…
— Robin Cousins
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I do not drink more than a sponge.
— Francois Rabelais
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I drink no more than a sponge.
— Francois Rabelais
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His tongue is by turns a sponge, a brush, a comb. He cleans himself, he smooths himself, he knows what is proper.
— Hippolyte Taine
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God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man's roots are planted in night as in a soil.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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This race is never grateful: from the first, One fills their cup at supper with pure wine, Which back they give at cross-time on a…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Take you me for a sponge?
— William Shakespeare
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The only certainty about writing and trying to be a writer is that it has to be done, not dreamed of or planned and never…
— Janet Frame
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I'm not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I look at is a great opportunity for ideas.
— Martha Stewart
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I think one probably absorbs things like a sponge and things emerge without your always being aware of it.
— Jeremy Northam
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From a very young age, my parents taught me the most important lesson of my whole life: They taught me how to listen. They taught…
— Steven Spielberg
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American English is essentially English after having been wiped off with a dirty sponge.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Be like a sponge when it comes to each new experience. If you want to be able to express it well, you must first be…
— Jim Rohn
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Flames from the lips may be produced by holding in the mouth a sponge saturated with the purest gasoline.
— Harry Houdini
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Frazier soaked it all up like a sponge. When they arrived in Manila it was the same story. Ali poured scorn on his opponent. Humiliated…
— Muhammad Ali
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I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks.
— Janet Flanner
Who Wrote These Sponge Quotes
82 authors contributed a total of 95 Sponge Quotes, led by these top contributors: