Shallow Water Overtides

Famous quotes containing the words shallow water, shallow and/or water:

    “What is more hopelessly uninteresting than accomplished liberty? Great swarming, teeming Sydney flowing out into these myriads of bungalows, like shallow waters spreading, undyked. And what then? Nothing. No inner life, no high command, no interest in anything finally.”
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    “Eternal smiles his emptiness betray,
    As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.”
    —Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

    “The tower nearest the water gets the moonlight first.”
    —Chinese proverb.