Sponge Quotes

95 quotes by 82 authors

Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred… — Aeschylus
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
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
Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar. — John Ciardi
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
I do not drink more than a sponge. — Francois Rabelais
I drink no more than a sponge. — Francois Rabelais
His tongue is by turns a sponge, a brush, a comb. He cleans himself, he smooths himself, he knows what is proper. — Hippolyte Taine
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
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
Take you me for a sponge? — William Shakespeare
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
I'm not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I look at is a great opportunity for ideas. — Martha Stewart
I think one probably absorbs things like a sponge and things emerge without your always being aware of it. — Jeremy Northam
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
American English is essentially English after having been wiped off with a dirty sponge. — J.R.R. Tolkien
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
Flames from the lips may be produced by holding in the mouth a sponge saturated with the purest gasoline. — Harry Houdini
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
I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks. — Janet Flanner

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