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Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent. -- Voltaire
Last year was a lifetime, a whole career in one season. We went from being the dregs to winners. -- Damon Hill
Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact. -- Henry Rollins
A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come. -- Eric Hoffer
It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity. -- George MacDonald
Through Love all that is bitter will be sweet, Through Love all that is copper will be gold, Through Love all dregs will become wine, through Love all pain will turn to medicine. -- Rumi
If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby 'it.' -- T. S. Eliot
What is written is merely the dregs of experience. -- Franz Kafka
Ah, I hope to live to 87 and drink from the the goblet of life to the dregs. -- Theo Van Gogh
When the cup of any sensual pleasure is drained to the bottom, there is always poison in the dregs. -- Jane Porter
A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I don't like self-righteous people," I say. "What's to like?" says Haymitch, who begins sucking the dregs out of the empty bottles. -- Suzanne Collins
What's any artist, but the dregs of his work? the human shambles that follows it around. What's left of the man when the work's done but a shambles of apology. -- William Gaddis
None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give. -- John Dryden
Stir not the bitterness in the cup that I mixed for myself,' said Denethor. 'Have I not tasted it now many nights upon my tongue, foreboding that worse lay in the dregs? -- J. R. R. Tolkien
The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science; and in like sort should our author accustom and exercise his imagination upon the dregs of nature. -- Alexander Pope
People get into debt head over heels because banks make it so easy to do so. Then the banks come along and act like these people who can't or won't pay their bills are the dregs of society. -- Jonathan Raymond
O cease! must hate and death return, Cease! must men kill and die? Cease! drain not to its dregs the urn Of bitter prophecy. The world is weary of the past, Oh, might it die or rest at last! -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
I am surrounded by some sort of wretched specters, not by people. They torment me as can torment only senseless visions, bad dreams, dregs of delirium, the drivel of nightmares and everything that passes down here for real life. -- Vladimir Nabokov
What is it they want from the man that they didn't get from the work? What do they expect? What is there left when he's done with his work, what's any artist but the dregs of his work, the human shambles that follows it around? -- William Gaddis
Yes. We both have a bad feeling. Tonight we shall take our bad feelings and share them, and face them. We shall mourn. We shall drain the bitter dregs of mortality. Pain shared, my brother, is pain not doubled, but halved. No man is an island. -- Neil Gaiman
You should know that there is little you can seek in this world, that there is no need for you to be so greedy, in the end all you can achieve are memories, hazy, intangible, dreamlike memories which are impossible to articulate. When you try to relate them, there are only sentences, the dregs left from the filter of linguistic structures. -- Gao Xingjian
We cannot master everything, taste everything, understand everything, drain every experience to its last dregs. But if we have the courage to let almost everything else go, we will probably be able to retain the thing necessary for us-whatever it may be. If we are too eager to have everything, we will almost certainly miss even the one thing we need -- Thomas Merton
The bitter dregs of Fortune's cup to drain. -- Homer
What's any artist, but the dregs of his work? -- William Gaddis
The last dregs of winter spoiling the taste of everything. -- Katherine Paterson
Friends fly away when the cask has been drained to the dregs. -- Horace
God ought to be given the choice portion of our wealth and not its dregs. -- Max Anders
And so the afternoon stretched on, and Ezbon toasted their imminent defeat to the dregs. -- C.N. Faust
Life is a cup of tea; the more heartily we drink the sooner we reach the dregs. -- James M. Barrie
The dregs may stir themselves as they please; they fall back to the bottom by their own coarseness. -- Joseph Joubert
And you stagger down to break your fast. Greasy bacon and lacquered eggs And coffee composed of frigid dregs. -- Ogden Nash
We are meant to taste of life ... and drink the cup of it to the dregs, bitter and sweet alike. -- Jacqueline Carey
Such a man, truly wise, creams off Nature leaving the sour and the dregs for philosophy and reason to lap up. -- Jonathan Swift
Gambling has held human beings in thrall for millennia. It has been engaged in everywhere, from the dregs of society to the most respectable circles. -- Peter L. Bernstein
You must learn to drink the cup of life as it comes ... without stirring it up from the bottom. That's where the bitter dregs are! -- Agnes Sligh Turnbull
What we did and who we were are just dregs compared to who we are now and how we act when the sword is coming down. -- Rachel Aaron
People who, out of an inborn moderation, leave every glass standing only half-emptied refuse to admit that everything in the world has its sediments and dregs. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
[E]lections amount to little more than choosing between the scum that floats to the top of the barrel and the dregs that settle to the bottom. -- L. Neil Smith
We are being governed by the dregs of the nation - and their brutality is so capricious that no one can feel certain that he will be safe tomorrow. -- Iris Origo
As I enter on the path of happiness, I scatter the dregs and shreds and clippings of the past behind me. I divest myself of all the crapulous years. -- William John Locke
London! the needy villain's general home, The common sewer of Paris and of Rome! With eager thirst, by folly or by fate, Sucks in the dregs of each corrupted state. -- Samuel Johnson
Drink your fill when the jar is first opened, and when it is nearly done, but be sparing when it is half-empty; it's a poor savingwhen you come to the dregs. -- Hesiod
Love is as bitter as the dregs of sin, As sweet as clover-honey in its cell; Love is the password whereby souls get in To Heaven--the gate that leads, sometimes, to Hell. -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
In order that the mortar in the joints may not suffer from frosts, drench it with oil-dregs every year before winter begins. Thus treated, it will not let the hoarfrost enter it. -- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
We're the victims of a disease called social prejudice, my child. These dear ladies of the law and order league are scouring out the dregs of the town. C'mon be a glorified wreck like me. -- Dudley Nichols
The coercive power of government is always a beacon to those who want to dominate others -- summoning the worst dregs of society to Washington to use that power to impose their will upon others. -- Harry Browne

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