1,285 Quotes About Wells

Men can dig wells, but they can’t create water.

You can’t draw water from an empty well. And the oddity of it all is that if I dug it, it’s going to be empty. Maybe that explains why I’m thirsty and why I can’t take a step without falling into some hole.

Life is two things. Life is morality – life is adventure. Squire and master. Adventure rules, and morality looks up the trains in the Bradshaw. Morality tells you what is right, and adventure moves you. If morality means anything it means keeping bounds, respecting implications, respecting implicit bounds. If individuality means anything it means breaking bounds – adventure.

I incessantly look for water in wells dug by men, and I have drunk enough sand to prove it.

It is an old custom. Men of good-intentions and goodwill who have the means stud the land around forlorn villages with fine groves and wells for the general comfort of travelers, and also so people from posterity while resting in the shade and refreshing themselves would think of them and would think kindly.

Si te gusta la literatura elegante conecta tú teléfono con Bruggles. El autor más grande de todos los tiempos. El pensador más grande de todos los tiempos. Te enseña Moral hasta la coronilla. La viva imagen de Sócrates, salvo el cogote que es el de Shakespeare. Tiene seis dedos en los pies, viste de rojo y no se lava nunca los dientes. Escúchale.

Bajo las estrellas uno puede estirarse hacia arriba y llegar a la resignación cualquiera que sea la desgracia, pero en el calor y la tensión del día de trabajo caemos de nuevo, vienen la indignación y la ira y los estados de ánimo intolerables. ¡Qué pequeña es toda nuestra magnanimidad, un accidente, una fase! Hasta los santos antiguos tenían primero que huir del mundo.

Find the thing you want to do most intensely, make sure that’s it, and do it with all your might. If you live, well and good. If you die, well and good. Your purpose is done

After digging a thousand wells of my own and stumbling upon a thousand others dug by the hands of thirsty men, I have yet to realize that the only well that can satiate every thirst is the one that men will never dig.