Broken-pot Quote by Lailah Gifty Akita

“Can a broken cisterns hold water?”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

The cistern contains: The fountain overflows.

— William Blake

“It is difficult to fill a broken vessel, and impossible to fill a leaking one.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Be like the fountain that overflows, not like the cistern that merely contains.

— Paulo Coelho

“If their occupation is actual work they prefer to pump water into cisterns, two of which leak through holes in the bottom and one…

— Stephen Leacock

“Either my water just broke or I wet myself.”

— R.K. Lilley

“You can't draw water from an empty well.”

— Emily Ley

When a broken tank is filled with water, It certainly will leak on every side. Weak men who grow rich Seldom leave an inheritance.

— Sakya Pandita

“So the little girl collected feeling like a cistern collects the rain, and when she held too much, she pulled it out and sealed…

— Ellen Datlow

“Do you know how wind and water are unstoppable? The smallest cracks give wind and water all they need to creep through and make…

— Dave Bruno

The way we guarantee safe drinking water is broken and needs to be fixed,

— Carol Browner

If Christ were only a cistern we might soon exhaust his fullness but who can drain a fountain?

— Charles Spurgeon