Water Quotes
The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.John W. Gardne
Genius is a bend in the creek where bright water has gathered, and which mirrors the trees, the sky and the banks. It just does that because it is there and the scenery is there. Talent is a fine mirror with a silver frame, with the name of the owner engraved on the back.Edgar Lee Masters
Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.Carl Schurz
I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - And the stars through his soul.Victor Hugo
What is Jordan that I should wash in it What is the preaching that I should attend on it, while I hear nothing but what I knew before What are these beggarly elements of water, bread, and wine Are not these the reasonings of a soul that forgets who appoints the means of grace.William Gurnall
It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.Hunter S. Thompson
Be on your guard against a silent dog and still water.Latin Prove
Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted, If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters returning Back to their springs, like the rain shall fill them full of refreshment; That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Water, everywhere over the earth, flows to join together. A single natural law controls it. Each human is a member of a community and should work within it.I Ching
Tears are the rinse water of an unhappy heart.Raynor Schein
A man may well bring a horse to the water but he cannot make him drink.John Heywood
Only cat lovers know the luxury of fur - Coated, musical hot water bottles that never go cold.Susanne Millen
Lakes, rivers, streams... all are water and all travel to the same destination. So it is with religion.Muhammed Ali, in a television interview
The true miracle is not walking on water or walking in air, but simply walking on this earth.Thich Nhat Hanh
Beauty is a form of genius - - Is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.Oscar Wilde
People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.James Arthur Baldwin
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.Leonardo da Vinci
We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
If there is Magic on this planet, it is contained in water.Loren
Iron rusts from disuse water loses its purity from stagnation and in cold weather becomes frozen even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.Leonardo DaVinci
I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate...Richard Milhous Nixon
Continental people have sex - Lives the English have hot - water bottles.George Mikes
The highest goodness is like water. Water benefits all things and does not compete. It stays in the lowly places which others despise. Therefore it is near The Eternal.Lao Tzu
With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.Chinese Prove
Water is the only drink for a wise man.Henry David Thoreau
Iron rusts from disue; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks
The best man is like water. Water is good it benefits all things and does not compete with them. It dwells in lowly places that all disdain. This is why it is so near to Tao.Lao Tzu
Green Goblin The itsy bitsy spider climbed up the water spout. Down came the Goblin and took the spider out.Spider - Man
It is occasionally possible to charge hell with a bucket of water, but against stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.Doris Fleeson
Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams. They have different names but all contain water. Religions have different names, but all contain truth.Muhammad Ali
Don? t go chasin? waterfalls. Please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you? re used to.TLC, Waterfalls
Post - Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing.Charles Krauthamme
What is harder than rock, or softer than water Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.Ovid
In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans.Kahlil Gibran
The first drink with water, the second without water, the third like water.Danish prove
There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.Kate Chopin
For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst? Verily, when good is hungry is seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters.Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
