“Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
“How agree the kettle and the earthen pot together? for if the one be smitten against the other, it shall be broken.”
Bible
“But the earthen vessel wherein it is sodden shall be broken: and if it be sodden in a brasen pot, it shall be both scoured, and rinsed in water.”
“And every earthen vessel, whereinto any of them falleth, whatsoever is in it shall be unclean; and ye shall break it.”
“It's the first battle we've ever done with a battery like it really was, with earthen walls, ... From a soldier's standpoint, it's really unique and huge. We've never had this before.”
Mike Moore
“A jug fills drop by drop.”
Buddha
“Licker talks mighty loud w'en it gits loose from de jug”
Joel Chandler Harris