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Familiar Quotations

Chalice – "Cup"

I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.–Maya Angelou

If your cup seems too bitter, if your burden seems to heavy, be sure that it is the wounded hand that is holding the cup, and that it is me who carried the cross that is carrying the burden.–Anonymous

It is a great thing, when the cup of bitterness is pressed to our lips, to feel that it is not fate or necessity, but divine love working upon us for good ends.–E. H. Chapin

I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough.–Diogenes

Well, think me a cup of coffee and a chocolate donut with some of those little sprinkles on top, will ya, as long as you're thinking.–The Fugitive

You ask me why a soft numbness diffuses all my inmost senses with deep oblivion, as though with thirsty throat I'd drained the cup that brings the sleep of Lethe.–Horace

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.–Martin Luther King, Jr.

However gifted and accomplished a young man may be, if he has no fondness for women, one has a feeling of something lacking, as of a precious wine cup without a bottom.–Yoshida Kenko

Where love and wisdom drink out of the same cup, in this everyday world, it is the exception.–Madame Neckar

I know it does make people happy, but to me it is just like having a cup of tea.–Cynthia Payne

• Preface iv
• Familiar Quotations 1
• Chalice – "Cup" 1
• Use in Literature 3
• Chalice 3
• Chalice – "Cup" 7
• Chalice – "Gold" 9
• Chalice – "Great" 10
• Chalice – "Miss" 11
• Chalice – "Night" 12
• Chalice – "Ruth" 12
• Nonfiction Usage 13
• Script Usage 13
• Presidential Usage 13
• Journalism Usage 13
• Legal Usage 14
• Bibliographic Usage 14
• Encyclopedic Usage 34
• Lexicographic Usage 36
• Index 44