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"Thanks to his constant habit of shaking the bottle in which life handed him the wine of experience, he presently found the taste of the lees rising as usual into his draught." »Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Fourth, Chapter 2
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"A good inclination is but the first rude draught of virtue, but the finishing strokes are from the will, which, if well disposed, will by degrees perfect it, as if all disposed will quickly deface it." »South
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"Only the shallow know themselves." »Oscar Wilde
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"Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition." »Charlotte Bronte
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"Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow." »Oscar Wilde
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"Pool of Shallow Waters" »Ashley Dean Mair
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"It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances." »Oscar Wilde
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"Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean." »Christopher Reeve
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"Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time." »Thomas Carlyle
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"It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars." »Garrison Keillor
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"Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only the shallow people who do not judge by appearances." »Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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"Free your mind, and the rest will follow. Be colorblind, don't be so shallow." »En Vogue, Free Your Mind
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"Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart." »Sophocles
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"To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top." »Robert M. Pirsig
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"It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible." »Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
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"A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: there shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again." »Alexander Pope, An essay on Criticism
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"In deep waters, you encounter only the wise and the brave; in shallow waters, the ignorant and the coward!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it but as I drink, I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is." »Henry David Thoreau, Walden
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"Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains." »Henry David Thoreau, Walden
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"Time is but the stream I go a-fishin in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains." »Henry David Thoreau
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"Here is an artificial city which has been pumped up under forced draught, inflated like a balloon, stuffed with rural humanity like a goose with corn...endeavoring to eat up this too rapid avalanche of anthropoids, the sunshine metropolis heaves and strains, sweats and becomes pop-eyed, like a young boa constrictor trying to swallow a goat. It has never imparted an urban character to its incoming population for the simple reason that it has never had any character to impart. On the other hand, the place has the manners, culture and general outlook of a huge country village." »Morrow Mayo
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"Bush Sr. was a jerk, Quayle an idiot, Clinton was atrocious and disgusting, most of those who persecuted him were hypocritical, Gore is shallow and weak, Bradley is an idealist, Bush Jr. a fool, and all of the independent candidates act like they're on drugs." »David Borenstein
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"Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time." »Thomas Carlyle
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"Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time." »Thomas Carlyle
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"A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity. His most gaudy sayings and doings seldom deceive them they see the actual man within, and know him for a shallow and pathetic fellow. In this fact, perhaps, lies one of the best proofs of feminine intelligence, or, as the common phrase makes it, feminine intuition." »Henry Louis Mencken
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"Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink, I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains. I would drink deeper; fish fill the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars. I cannot count one. I know not the first letter of the alphabet. I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born." »Henry David Thoreau
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"Shallow understanding accompanies poor compassion, great understanding goes with great compassion." »Tich Nhat Han, The sun my heart
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"A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking knave, a whoreson, glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch: one whom I will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deniest the least syllable of thy addition." »Earl of Kent, _The_Tragedy_of_King_Lear_
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