Vapour Quotes

Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away (James 4:14). - Bible

There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another? / Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: / Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. - Bible

The rotation of the polarization plane is extraordinarily small in all gases, thus also in sodium vapour. - Pieter Zeeman

The noise thereof sheweth concerning it, the cattle also concerning the vapour. - Bible

Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade, And keeps that palace of the soul serene. - Edmund Waller

So, so, break off this last lamenting kiss, / Which sucks two souls, and vapours both away,/ Turn thou ghost that way, and let me turn this, / And let our selves benight our happiest day. - John Donne

Praise the LORD from the earth, ye dragons, and all deeps: / Fire, and hail; snow, and vapours; stormy wind fulfilling his word: / Mountains, and all hills; fruitful trees, and all cedars: / Beasts, and all cattle; creeping things, and flying fowl: / Kings of the earth, and all people; princes, and all judges of the earth: / Both young men, and maidens; old men, and children: / Let them praise the name of the LORD: for his name alone is excellent; his glory is above the earth and heaven. - Bible

Once upon a perfect night, unclouded and still, there came the face of a pale and beautiful lady. The tresses of her hair reached out to make the constellations, and the dewy vapours of her gown fell soft upon the land. - Kit Williams

He causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings for the rain; he bringeth the wind out of his treasuries. - Bible