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the pond

«The car has become a secular sanctuary for the individual, his shrine to the self, his mobile Walden Pond»
«Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!»
«When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?»
«Four ducks on a pond, / A grass-bank beyond, / A blue sky of spring, / White clouds on the wing: / What a little thing / To remember for years - / To remember with tears!»
«A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out»
«Drop anchor anywhere and the anchor will drag - that is, if soul is a limitless, fathomless sea, and not a dog pond»
«While some men believe in the infinite, some ponds will be thought to be bottomless»
«Newfoundland dogs are good to save children from drowning, but you must have a pond of water handy and a child, or else there will be no profit in boarding a Newfoundland»
«In Switzerland, on a high mountain, not far from Lucerne, there is a lake they call Pilate's Pond, which the Devil has fixed upon as one of the chief residences of his evil spirits»
«There are a sort of men whose visagesDo cream and mantle like a standing pond.»