“And he took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in a shepherd's bag which he had, even in a scrip; and his sling was in his hand: and he drew near to the Philistine.”
Bible
“Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep”
William Shakespeare
“Nor sword nor spear the stripling took, / But chose a pebble from the brook.”
William Cowper
“My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away; / Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid: / What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.”
“To forget one's ancestor's is to be a brook without a source, a tree without root”
Chinese Proverbs
“And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.”
“The pebble in the brook secretly thinks itself a precious stone”
Japanese Proverb
