Indexed in the public record
“The nations are as a drop of a bucket.”
— Unattributed
Provenance
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 782b2bb8f29f47b8334dbcbaf1da3fd401d93b176c506c8ab63acc4f3c33c509
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
Related in the record
“Penny wise, pound foolish.”
Robert Burton
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Thy head is as full of quarrels as an egg is full of meat.”
William Shakespeare
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“The point is plain as a pike-staff.”
John Byrom
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Be England what she will, With all her faults she is my country still.”
Charles Churchill
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“That knuckle-end of England,--that land of Calvin, oat-cakes, and sulphur.”
Sydney Smith
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Then join in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.”
John Dickinson
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
Said something yourself? Put it on the record — $5.
A timestamped public registration for your own line — before someone else claims it.
This is an indexed reference citation, not a legal registry entry and not a claim of ownership.