Grind Quote by Orison Swett Marden

“Take the proverb to thy soul! Take and clasp it fast: “The mill cannot grind with the water that has passed.” —Sarah Doudney”

— Linda Goodnight

The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.

— Daniel D. Palmer

“I sit down by the river. Its incessant flow has polished the rocks carried from the top of the mountain. The aqueous caress, that…

— Gabrielle Dubois

Of course, Ankh-Morpork's citizens had always claimed that the river water was incredibly pure. Any water that had passed through so many kidneys, they…

— Terry Pratchett

“He read it over twenty times and though the darkness that sang on held steady about him, the unhurried words fell bright through his…

— Elizabeth Spencer

“Best let water passed under the bridge keep on trickling downstream.”

— Ellen Hopkins

The journey over the bridge had unnerved me. The river water passed me by like an untouched drink. I suspected that even if my…

— Sylvia Plath

Environmental laws were not passed to protect our air and water, they were passed to get votes.

— Frank Zappa

Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds you stuff of any degree of fineness; but, nevertheless, what you get…

— Thomas Huxley

All the lessons of history in four sentences: 1) Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power; 2) The mills of…

— Charles A. Beard

There is no lasting happiness outside the prescribed cycle of painful exhaustion and pleasurable regeneration, and whatever throws this cycle out of balance –…

— Hannah Arendt

Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment they desert…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson