Famous quotes containing the words troubled water, troubled and/or water:
“The public easily confuses him who fishes in troubled waters with him who draws up water from the depths.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“Sometimes these cogitations still amaze
The troubled midnight and the noon’s repose.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“The Indian navigator naturally distinguishes by a name those parts of a stream where he has encountered quick water and forks, and again, the lakes and smooth water where he can rest his weary arms, since those are the most interesting and more arable parts to him.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)