A Quote by George Herbert

To a boiling pot flies come not.

George Herbert

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Boiling Come Flies Pot

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George Herbert
British - Poet
April 3, 1593 - March 1, 1633

The busy man has few idle visitors; to the boiling pot the flies come not.

Benjamin Franklin

Fervency in prayer by the power of the Holy Spirit is a good preservative against thoughts rushing in. Flies never settle on the boiling pot.

Dwight L. Moody

The melting-pot idea is futile ... The brew in a melting pot is always boiling over.

Pearl S. Buck

A woman knows she can walk away from a pot to tend something else and the pot will go on boiling; if she couldn't this world would end at once.

Barbara Kingsolver

Telling a butler how to make good tea; Warm the pot first, please, then put two heaping teaspoonfuls in the pot no bags in boiling water, and when it's in, stir it. And when it comes here, I will stir it again.

Lynn Fontanne

We're just a bubble in a boiling pot.

Jack Johnson

Las Vegas is the boiling pot of entertainment.

Don Rickles

I have heard a greater storm in a boiling pot.

Athenaeus

As you heat the planet up, it's just like boiling a pot.

Elon Musk

A good love story always keeps the pot boiling.

James Patterson

So long as I know what's boiling in my pot I don't bother my head about what's in other people's.

Marcel Proust

I've heard that people stand in bad situations because a relationship like that gets turned up by degrees. It is said that a frog will jump out of a pot of boiling water. Place him in a pot and turn it up a little at a time, and he will stay until he is boiled to death. Us frogs understand this.

Deb Caletti

If you throw a frog in a pot of boiling water, it will hop right out. But if you put that frog in a pot of tepid water and slowly warm it, the frog doesn't figure out what going on until it's too late. Boiled frog. It's just a metter of working by slow degrees.

Stephenie Meyer

We as human beings do this thing where we stuff down our feelings until they find a way to manifest themselves. We try to avoid them until there's no more room and they come bubbling up like a pot of boiling-hot water that overflows. And when it does, it burns.