Bathe Quotes
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What would a man do, if he were compelled to live always in the sultry heat of society, and could never bathe himself in cool solitude?
Nathaniel Hawthorne— 1836
When Ganga was brought to Haridwar, then all the Gods asked: ’We wash all sins, but who will wash us?’ Ganga said this to Lord Vishnu: ’Lord Vishnu Bhagwan, tell us, what should we do?’ Then the Lord said: ‘As many sadhus and saints are living in this world, every time they will bathe in Ganga, all your sins will be washed away [automatically].
— A tale narrated to Eck, in p.46
Thus did they live:Thus did they love, Repeating only joys above; And Angels were, but with clothes on, Which they would put off cheerfully, To bathe them in the galaxy, Then gird them with the Heavenly zone.
Richard Lovelace— 1649 Lucasta,'Love Made in the First Age'.
I like the heat the tenderness the edible the lusciousness the song of a single person the bathtub full of water to bathe myself beneath the water.. ..I like the wheatfields the plough the apricots those flirts of the sun. But bread above all. (1942):
arshile gorky— Gorky Memorial Exhibition, Schwabacher pp. 28, as quoted in Movements in art since 1945, Edward Lucie-Smith, Thames and Hudson 1975, p 31
Love and grief our hearts dividing, With our tears His feet we bathe; Constant still, in faith abiding, Life deriving from His death.
james allen— Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 371.
Those who bathe at Ganga at least once in its pure water are protected from thousands of dangers forever and get rid of sins of generations and are purified immediately.
Brahmanandpuranam— Brahmanandpuranam, in The Ganga A River Of Life
Whether you bathe in the Ganga for a thousand years or live on vegetable food for a like period, unless it helps towards the manifestation of the Self , know that it is all of no use
— Vivekananda, in The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 7/Conversations And Dialogues/XVII
He has ears he likes to bathe in sound.
John Mason Brown— 1963 Of playwright Maxwell Anderson. Dramatis Personae.
If I could put my hand on the north star, would it be as beautiful? The sea is lovely, but when we bathe in it, the beauty forsakes all the near water. For the imagination and senses cannot be gratified at the same time.
ralph waldo emerson— Beauty
I wanna stand with you on a mountain, I wanna bathe with you at the sea, I wanna lay like this forever, until the sky falls down on me.
savage garden— "Truly Madly Deeply"
Since your legs, Phœbus, resemble the horns of the moon, you might bathe your feet in a cornucopia.
— Martial, Epigrams (c. 80-104 AD), Book II, Epigram 35.
If you wish, Faustinus, a bath of boiling water to be reduced in temperature, a bath, such as scarcely Julianus could enter, ask the rhetorician Sabinæus to bathe himself in it. He would freeze the warm baths of Nero.
— Martial, Epigrams (c. 80-104 AD), Book III, Epigram 25.
One sip of this Will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, Beyond the bliss of dreams.
john milton— John Milton, Comus (1637), L. 811.
The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, And violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.
Robert Burns— Robert Burns, My Nannie's Awa.
In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad Gita in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and trivial.
— Henry David Thoreau, Walden, [50]
Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable sub-human who has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.
— Robert Heinlein, Time Enough For Love (1973), and again in The Notebooks of Lazarus Long (1978)
What soul was his, when, from the naked top Of some bold headland, he beheld the sun Rise up, and bathe the world in light! He looked Ocean and earth, the solid frame of earth And ocean's liquid mass, in gladness lay Beneath him:Far and wide the clouds were touched, And in their silent faces he could read Unutterable love.
william wordsworth— 1814 'The Excursion', bk.1, l.198-205.
While Spring shall pour his showers, as oft he wont, And bathe thy breathing tresses, meekest Eve! While Summer loves to sport Beneath thy lingering light; While sallow Autumn fills thy lap with leaves, Or Winter, yelling through the troublous air, Affrights thy shrinking train, And rudely rends thy robes.
william collins— Odes on Several Descriptive and Allegoric Subjects, "Ode to Evening", lines 41-8 (1747)
