“Since that deluge of newspaper articles I have been so flooded with questions, invitations, suggestions, that I keep dreaming I am roasting in Hell, and the mailman is the devil eternally yelling at me, showering me with more bundles of letters at my head because I have not answered the old ones.” Has BeensDreamHellDevilLettersNewspapersArticlesSuggestionsInvitationsYellingBundlesDelugeKeep DreamingRoastingMailman Author:Albert Einstein
“DELUGE, n. A notable first experiment in baptism which washed away the sins (and sinners) of the world.” WorldFirstsSinExperimentsSinnerNotableBaptismDeluge Book:The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World
“By his machines man can dive and remain under water like a shark; can fly like a hawk in the air; can see atoms like a gnat; can see the system of the universe of Uriel, the angel of the sun; can carry whatever loads a ton of coal can lift; can knock down cities with his fist of gunpowder; can recover the history of his race by the medals which the deluge, and every creature, civil or savage or brute, has involuntarily dropped of its existence; and divine the future possibility of the planet and its inhabitants by his perception of laws of nature.” MenLawUniverseWaterRaceCitiesExistenceSunAirPossibilityDivinePlanetsCreaturesPerceptionAngelMachinesLiftsAtomsLoadSavagesCoalFistsMedalLaws Of NatureBrutesSharksHawksGunpowderDelugeGnatsFuture Possibilities Book:Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims Source: Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims
“They have written volumes out of which a couplet of verse, a period in prose, may cling to the rock of ages, as a shell that survives a deluge.” MayAgeWrittenRocksPeriodsProseVersesShellsVolumeDelugeCouplets Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton