Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Isaiah 40:15.

Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink. The very deep did rot: O Christ! That ever this should be! Yes, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea.

-Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
  'The Rime of the  Ancient Mariner', pt.2.

Reachmea rose, honey, and pour mea last drop intothat there crystal glass.

-Fitzgerald, F(rancis) Scott Key
  The Great Gatsby, ch.4.

'It's powerful,' he said. 'What?' 'That one drop of Negro bloodöbecause just one drop of black blood makes a man coloured. One dropöyou are a Negro!'

-Hughes, (James Mercer) Langston
  Simple Takes a Wife.

   Now hast thou but one bare hour to live, And then thou must be damned perpetually! Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven, That time may cease, and midnight never come. Fair nature's eye, rise, rise, again, and make Perpetual day; or let this hour be but Ayear, a month, a week, a natural day, That Faustus may repent and save his soul! O lente, lente currite, noctis equi: The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike, The devil will come, and Faustus must be damned. Oh, I'll leap up to my God!öWho pulls me down?ö See, see, where Christ's blood streams in the firmament! One drop would save my soul, half a drop, ah, my Christ.

-Marlowe, Christopher
c.1592  Doctor Faustus (published1604), act 5, sc.2.

Thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovran vital lamp; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.

-Milton,John
  Of his blindness. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.3, l.22^7.

Hatred is always a sin, my mother told me. Remember that.One drop of hatred in your soul will spread and discoloreverything like a drop of black ink inwhite milk. I was struck by that and meant to try it, but knew I shouldn't waste the milk.

-Munro, Alice ne¤  e Laidlaw
  The Progress of Love,'The Progress of Love'.

Winter is icummen in, Lhude sing Goddamm, Raineth drop and staineth slop, And how the wind doth ramm! Sing: Goddamm. SeeAnonymous19:83.

-Pound, Ezra Loomis
  Lustra,'Ancient Music'.

That cordial drop heaven in our cup has thrown To make the nauseous draught of life go down.

-Rochester,JohnWilmot, 2nd Earl of
c.1674  Of love.'A Letter from Artemisia in theTown to Chloe in the Country', l.44^5 (published1679).

I don't drop players,I make changes.

-Shankly, Bill (William)
Quoted in Peter Ball and Phil Shaw The Book of Football Quotations (1990).

Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold.

-Walpole, Horace, 4th Earl of Orford
  Letter to George Montague, 30 Jul. In The Correspondence of HoraceWalpole (Yale edition,1937^8).