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Fountain Quotes

Fountain Definition  
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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
Jean Cocteau

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
Washington Irving

And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.
Venerable Bede

But the law of God came from heaven indeed. God wrote it with his finger, it is the fountain of all wisdom, and therefore shall it continue for ever, and never have an end.
John Jewel

Elton wanted a garden. They were building all afternoon while we were rehearsing. And then they built a fountain for Elton. And he said, I was only joking!
Maurice Gibb

Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
Barbara Kingsolver

From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born.
Michelangelo

From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
Lucretius

From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
Lucretius

God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I don't want anything to do with anything mechanical between me and the paper, including a typewriter, and I don't even want a fountain pen between me and the paper.
Shelby Foote

I'm a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl.
Bjork

I've learned one thing about life. We're a good deal like that ball, dancing on the fountain. We know as little about the forces that move us, and move the world around us, as that empty ball does.
Ardel Wray

If I could only get people to rub my belly for good lucky and then throw money in my fountain, it'd be a perfect world.
Christopher Meloni

In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
Lucretius

It is difficult to describe in short the enthusiasm and devotion provoked by and given to my research. We lived almost in poverty. I used pencils, two for a nickel, and could not buy a fountain pen, when I lost mine.
Immanuel Velikovsky

Let me just say something that I forgot, I also hoped and this was very true in the beginning - that this would also be a place that people would be able to walk in to the fountain and use it in a nice way of reading and examining the quotations on the blocks.
Lawrence Halprin

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
Marcus Aurelius

My countrymen have commissioned a bust of the Republic. It will be placed on the fountain of my native town.
Camille Claudel

My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.
Graham Greene

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