jar quotes

   Calm soul of all things! make it mine To feel, amid the city's jar, That there abides a peace of thine, Man did not make, and cannot mar.

- Matthew Arnold
  Empedocles on Etna and Other Poems,'Lines written in Kensington Garden'.

Or would you like to swing on a star Carry moonbeams home in a jar And be better off than you are Or would you rather be a fish?

-Johnny Burke
  Swinging on a Star, sung by Bing Crosby in the film Going My  Way. Music by  Jimmy Van Heusen.

Quo semel est imbuta recens servabit odorem testa diu. The first scent you pour in a jar lasts for years.

-Horace full name  Quintus Horatius Flaccus   65
Epistulae, bk.1, no.2, l.69.

Eleanor Rigby picks up the rice in a church where a wedding has been, Lives in a dream. Waits at the window, wearing the facethat she keeps in a jar by the door, Who is it for? All the lonely people, where do they all come from?

-Paul
  'Eleanor Rigby'.

Whether the nymph shall break Diana's law, Or some frail china jar receive a flaw, Or stain her honour, or her new brocade, Forget her pray'rs, or miss a masquerade.

- Alexander Pope
  The Rape of the Lock, canto 2, l.105^8.

I placed a jar inTennessee, And round it was, upon a hill. It made the slovenly wilderness Surround that hill.

-Wallace Stevens
  Harmonium,'Anecdote of theJar'.