The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Every quotation a nineteenth-century speaker or writer might want, grouped under its subject, with the author, the date and the source given as exactly as Hoyt could manage.

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Thirst: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Est in aquâ dulci non invidiosa voluptas. There is no small pleasure in pure water.— OVID — Epistolæ Ex Ponto. II. 7. 73.
Miserum est opus, Igitur demum fodere puteum, ubi sitis fauces tedet. It is wretched business to be digging well just as thirst is mastering you.— PLAUTUS — Mostellaria. 11. 1. 32.
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