Water Quotes
A person has three choices in life. You can swim against the tide and get exhausted, or you can tread water and let the tide sweep you away, or you can swim with the tide, and let it take you where it wants you to go.Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Northern Lights, 1993
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
With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of these things. Riches and honors acquired by unrighteousness are to me as a floating cloud.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
My empty waterdish mocks me.Bob the Dog
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
Only cat lovers know the luxury of fur - Coated, musical hot water bottles that never go cold.Susanne Millen
Women are like teabags. You dont know how strong they are until you put them in hot water.Eleanor Roosevelt
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, The Way of Lao - Tzu
Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on Richard Nixon.Archibald Cox
An attempt is already underway to revise history - To leave the impression that the former president had nothing to do with Watergate. But there is no doubt about his obstruction of justice after the Watergate break - In.John J. Sirica
You could not step twice into the same river; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.Heraclitus, On the Universe
The political lesson of Watergate is this Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by - Pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election.Gerald R. Ford
My friend I consider you my brother. I know we are not blood, and blood is thicker than water, but your body already has all the blood it needs. You will always need water.Eric Pio
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
Indecision is like a stepchild if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water.African Prove
We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.French Prove
Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.Mark Twain
According to Democritus, truth lies at the bottom of a well, the water of which serves as a mirror in which objects may be reflected. I have heard, however, that some philosophers, in seeking for truth, to pay homage to her, have seen their own image and adored it instead.Charles Richte
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.Miguel Cerbantes
In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago.Christina G. Rossetti
If there is Magic on this planet, it is contained in water.Loren
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 generally flows downhill in this area.Bob Bennett, WDIV News 4, Detroit, reporting on a flood that destroyed some suburban basement apartments.
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
From Watergate we learned what generations before us have known our Constitution works. And during Watergate years it was interpreted again so as to reaffirm that no one - Absolutely no one - Is above the law.Leon Jaworski
The tree of Liberty needs to be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.Thomas Jefferson
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
It is occasionally possible to charge hell with a bucket of water, but against stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.Doris Fleeson
A fool and water will go the way they are diverted.African Prove
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.Oliver Wendell Holmes
If a man is destined to drown, he will drown even in a spoonful of water.Yiddish Prove
Mars is essentially in the same orbit... Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe.Dan Quayle, 8/11/89
You know something that would really make me applaud A guy gets stuck in quicksand, then sinks, then suddenly comes shooting out, riding on water skis How do they do that.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
When the water reaches the upper level, follow the rats.Claude Swanson
Fish, to taste good, must swim three times in water, in butter, and in wine.Polish Prove
A woman is like a tea bag - You never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.Eleanor Roosevelt
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
