Jug Quotes

A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou. (Omar Khayyám)
Spring, the sweet spring, is the year's pleasant King, Then blooms each thing, then maids dance in a ring, Cold doth not sting, the pretty birds do sing, Cuckoo, jug, jug, pu wee, to witta woo! View quote
Thomas Nashe
I'm nobody. I'm a tramp, a bum, a hobo. I'm a boxcar and a jug of wine, and a straight razor if you get too close to me. View quote
Charles Manson
Licker talks mighty loud w'en it gits loose from de jug. View quote
Joel Chandler Harris
There are many great wine producers from all over the world making fantastic wines. Italian wines especially are making an enormous comeback after sometimes being labeled as inexpensive jug wines. View quote
Rocco DiSpirito
Long gone is the time when we opposed the notion that we all looked alike and talked alike. Somehow we have come to exalt the new black stereotype above all and to demand conformity to that norm. It is this notion - that our race defines us -- that Ralph Ellison so eloquently rebuts in his essay, "The World and the Jug." He sees the lives of black people as more than a burden, but also a discipline, just as any human life which has endured so long is a discipline, teaching its own insights into the human condition, its own strategies of survival. There's a fullness and even a richness here. And here despite the realities of politics, perhaps, but nevertheless here and real because it is human life. View quote
Clarence Thomas
if the subject of art will be a broken jug a small broken soul with a great self-pity what will remain of us will be like tears of lovers in a small dirty hotel when wallpapers dawn. View quote
Zbigniew Herbert
All you can usually say about a poem or a picture is, 'Look at it, listen to it.' Whether you listen to a piece of music or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own." View quote
Basil Bunting
On the Coast of Coromandel Where the early pumpkins blow, In the middle of the woods Lived the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bò. Two old chairs, and half a candle,- One old jug without a handle,- These were all his worldly goods. View quote
Edward Lear
One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it. View quote
Anthony Trollope
A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread - and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness - Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow! (Omar Khayyám)
One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtle, very changeable, running over my pen, as if you poured a large jug of champagne over a hairpin. View quote
Virginia Woolf
He feels like a handle broken off a jug, but the jug doesn't know it's broken and keeps going to the well. View quote
Wisława Szymborska
A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread - and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness - Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow! View quote
Edward FitzGerald (poet)
Brer Rabbit keep on axin' 'im, en de Tar-Baby, she keep on sayin' nothin', twel present'y Brer Rabbit draw back wid his fis', he did, en blip he tuck 'er side er de head. Right dar's whar he broke his merlasses jug. His fis' stuck, en he can't pull loose. De tar hilt 'im. View quote
Joel Chandler Harris
My mother and her little brown jug It held her milk And now it holds our memories... View quote
Kate Bush
When I was in Bessastaðir I had a jug of water-and an ax. A well-sharpened ax is a fine tool. On the other hand I've never been fond of the gallows, and never less than when I wrestled a hanged man. View quote
Halldór Laxness
What motive had a Dutch painter in painting a picture? None. And notice that he never asked for one. A peasant with a drunken red nose looks at you with his heavy eye and laughs with open mouth showing his teeth, raising a jug; if it is well painted, it has its value. View quote
Eugène Fromentin
My mother was harsh and constantly told me I had jug ears and heaven knows what else. But she was devoted and a hard worker. View quote
Carmen Dell'Orefice
A measuring jug is also vital when cooking rice, as this is always measured by volume rather than by weight. View quote
Delia Smith
The Jug Band was exactly what I wanted to do, and it wasn't my idea. (John Sebastian)
Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own. View quote
Basil Bunting
A book of verses underneath the bough, A jug of wine, a loaf of bread-and thou. View quote
Edward FitzGerald (poet)
My favorite health club is the International House of Pancakes. No matter what your weight is, there will always be someone who weighs 150 pounds more than you will ever weigh. It's guaranteed; it's on the back of the menu, read it sometime. They don't give you a cup of coffee, they give you a hot aisle of coffee! It's coffee for 15 people. Even if you're alone, they bring you a big jug of coffee, which makes me feel good 'cause I think maybe somebody's coming and I don't know who. So I put in the sugar and the milk and I drink the whole thing and then I go, "BRING ME SOME GODDAMN PANCAKES!" Son of a bitch, that's too much coffee. What's the matter with you people? View quote
Lewis Black
I saw within the wheelwright's shed The big round cartwheels, blue and red; A plough with blunted share; A blue tin jug; a broken chair; And paint in trial patchwork square Slapping up against the wall; The lumber of the wheelwright's trade, And tools on benches neatly laid, The brace, the adze, the awl. View quote
Vita Sackville-West
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