A Quote by Lloyd Alexander

Stale water is a poor drink. Stale skill is worse. And the man who walks in his own footsteps only ends where he began.

Lloyd Alexander

Quote Topics

Began Drink Ends Footsteps He Man His Man Only Own Poor Skill Stale Walks Water Worse

Quote Author

Lloyd Alexander
American - Writer
January 30, 1924 - May 17, 2007

If water stands motionless in a pool it grows stale and muddy, but when it moves and flows it becomes clear: so, too, man in his wanderings.

Muhammad Asad

Show business is stale ideas and stale actors.

Jackie Coogan

An actor can grow stale in a bad part. Actors grow stale, generally, because there's no demand on them.

Norman Lloyd

Stale is stale and borrowed is borrowed, no matter how original your models may have been.

Robert Silverberg

Running water never grows stale.

Bruce Lee

If a man devotes himself to the instructions of his own unconscious, it can bestow this gift [of renewal], so that suddenly life, which has been stale and dull, turns into a rich unending inner adventure, full of creative possibilities

Marie-Louise von Franz

Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and God, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and revealed to him the art of making le vin. By the aid of this liquid he unveiled more and more truth.

Benjamin Franklin

The idea is that flowing water never goes stale, so just keep on flowing.

Bruce Lee

I'll Vacuum up my stale hair, I'll pay all my neighbors' bad debts, I'll write a poem called Yellow and put my lips down to drink it up.

Anne Sexton

The wise man is he who is not surprised when he finds stale tea in a beautiful teapot!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Tomorrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale.

Samuel Johnson

Bare skin is the one and only right criterion for receiving water's gracious acceptance or any acceptance whatsoever from that element. But Pliny also seems to say something more: Stripping off not caution but the stale, crusty garments of preconception, peeling sensibly down to raw, new nakedness, is the only way to enter and be properly embraced by the world.

Janet Lembke

Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

A good engineer gets stale very fast if he doesn't keep his hands dirty.

Wernher von Braun

Our job is like a baker's work - his rolls are tasty as long as they're fresh; after two days they're stale; after a week, they're covered with mould and fit only to be thrown out.