Water Quotes
Into this Universe, and Why not knowing Nor Whence, like Water, willy - Nilly flowing And out of it, as Wind along the Waste, I know not Wither, willy - Nilly blowing.Omar Khayym
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
Human beings are seventy percent water, and with some the rest is collagen.Martin Mull
When you drink the water, remember the spring.Chinese Prove
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.Henry David Thoreau
The function of government ought to be: make sure you have good water to drink, somebody picking up the garbage, good roads to drive on, enough electricity to turn your light bulbs and your record player on, and whatever smaller amounts of regulatory assistance is necessary to make this society work.Frank Zappa, Interview with this submitter, New York City, 5/08/1980
Water generally flows downhill in this area.Bob Bennett, WDIV News 4, Detroit, reporting on a flood that destroyed some suburban basement apartments.
One kernel is felt in a hogshead one drop of water helps to swell the ocean a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act.Hannah More
The Green Party is like a watermelon - Green on the outside and red on the inside.Rep. Bill Dannemeyer, R - Fullerton
Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
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
If the many allegations made to this date are true, then the burglars who broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate were, in effect, breaking into the home of every citizen.Sam James Ervin, Jr.
Many politicians lay it down as a self - Evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.Lord Macaulay
I row after health like a waterman...Jonathan Swift
Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.W. C. Fields
A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.Carl Reine
Let this be an example for the acquisition of all knowledge, virtue, and riches. By the fall of drops of water, by degrees, a pot is filled.The Hitopadesa
Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.Carl Schurz
Blood is thicker than water, but politics are thicker than blood.Frank Herbert, Dune
Streets full of water; please advise.Robert Benchley
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
I want you to stonewall it. To staff on news of break - In at Watergate.Richard Milhous Nixon
You are 87% water; the other 13% keeps you from drowning.P. E. Morris
The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.William Blake
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
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
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
Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - The wheel, New York, wars and so on - while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - For precisely the same reason.Douglas Noel Adams
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 Rossetti, A Christmas Carol
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
Women are like teabags. You dont know how strong they are until you put them in hot water.Eleanor Roosevelt
Sincere diplomacy is no more possible than dry water or wooden iron.Josef Stalin
I pray thee cease thy counsel, Which falls into mine ears as profitless as water in a sieve.William Shakespeare
The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants.Bertrand Barere de Vieuzac
Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.A. Alvarez
There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
You could not step twice into the same river; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.Heraclitus, On the Universe
