Famous quotes containing the words drain and/or cleaning:
“When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man’s soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)
“The disgust with dirt can be so great that it keeps us from cleaning ourselves—from “justifying” ourselves.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)