Potter quotes

  • Thou art my Son: this day have I begotten thee. Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    Psalms 2:7^9.

  • Nay but,O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it,Why hastthou made methus? Hathnotthepotter powerover the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    Romans 9:20^1.

  • Time'swheelsrunsbackor stops: Potterand clayendure.

    - Robert Browning
      Dramatis Personae,'Rabbi ben Ezra', stanza 27.

  • Potter is piqued with potter, joiner with joiner, beggar begrudges beggar, and singer singer.

    -Hesiod   c.8c
    Of a quarrel within a village. Opera et dies, 25 (translated by M L West,1988).

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