Advantage Quote by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

What is harder than stone? What more soft than water? Nevertheless hard though the rock be, it is hollowed by the wave.

— Ovid

The stone in quarries is found to be of different and unlike qualities. In some it is soft, in others it is medium, in…

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

The stones of a river start out rough, but with the current continually bumping and polishing them, they end up being beautiful.

— Swami Satchidananda

Stones are hollowed out by the constant dropping of water.

— Ovid

The hardened mass of liquid stones had much stronger qualities than those which had simply torn. The skin remained a recognisable part of the…

— Andy Goldsworthy

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

— Anonymous

I soon realised that what had happened on a small scale cannot necessarily be repeated on a larger scale. The stones were so big…

— Andy Goldsworthy

I am convinced, by repeated observation, that marbles, lime-stones, chalks, marls, clays, sand, and almost all terrestrial substances, wherever situated, are full of shells…

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.

— Ovid

“Maturity/experience: the beguiling texture of stones subjected to years of furious seas.”

— Alain de Botton

You cannot expect stone to be as pliable as clay.

— Anne Bronte

The Stones were always exemplary of one of the best of all rock qualities: tightness. They have always been economical, the opposite of ornamental.…

— Jon Landau