Omar Khayyam
Poet, Mathematician, Astronomer
"A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou."
Jugs quotes
Jugs
26 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Delia Smith
Author
"A measuring jug is also vital when cooking rice, as this is always measured by volume rather than by weight"
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Novelist
"Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them."
Edward Fitzgerald
Poet, Translator
"A book of verses underneath the bough, A jug of wine, a loaf of bread-and thou."
Samuel Johnson
Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
"Men are like stone jugs - you may lug them where you like by the ears."
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"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."
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"[On Dutch flat poetry]: It is too smooth and blubbery; it reads like butter-milk gurgling from a jug."
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"I walked over and picked up one of the jugs. "What's this? Some kind of Caster disinfectant?" Lena took it out of my hand and lined it up with the others. "Yeah, it's called bleach."
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"On the delivery plate of the Nutri-Matic Drink Synthesizer was a small tray, on which say three bone china cups and saucers, a bone china jug of milk, a silver teapot full of the best tea Arthur had ever tasted and a small printed note saying "Wait."
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"Good wine needs no bush; a jug is the thing."
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"The Jug Band was exactly what I wanted to do, and it wasn't my idea."
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