Water Quotes

Latin prove - be on your guard against a silent dog and still...
Green Goblin The itsy bitsy spider climbed up the water spout. Down came the Goblin and took the spider out.
Spider - Man
Pearl buck - at my age the bones are water in the morning...
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
Thomas b. macaulay - the maxim that people should not have a right...
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 man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
William Blake
Husbands are awkward things to deal with even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender.
Mary Lorraine Buckley
Marty This tasteless cover is a good indication of the lack of musical invention within. The musical growth of this band cannot even be charted. They are treading water in a sea of retarded sexuality and bad poetry.
This Is Spinal Tap
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
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - - Like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash Be water my friend.
Bruce Lee
You should respect each other and refrain from disputes you should not, like water and oil, repel each other, but should, like milk and water, mingle together.
Buddha
Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow.
Arthur Stringer, "The Silver Poppy".
The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.
Robert Fulghum, It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It
A woman is like a teabag, you never know how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
Mae West
No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see.
Taoist Prove
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.
Miguel de Cervantes
The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants.
Bertrand Barere de Vieuzac
Sincere diplomacy is no more possible than dry water or wooden iron.
Josef Stalin
With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.
Chinese Prove
If you neglect to recharge a battery, it dies. And if you run full speed ahead without stopping for water, you lose momentum to finish the race.
Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, April 2003
Water is the most neglected nutrient in your diet but one of the most vital.
Kelly Barton
Enough shovels of earth.......................... a mountain. Enough pails of water............................... a river.
Chinese Prove
You can never step into the same river for new waters are always flowing on to you.
Heraclitus
Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink. Water, water everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans.
Kahlil Gibran
One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire help 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
An American tragedy in which we all have played a part. On Watergate, announcing pardon of former President Richard M Nixon.
Gerald R. Ford
You could not step twice into the same river for other waters are ever flowing on to you.
Heraclitus
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 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
It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters.
Aesop
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
There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.
Kate Chopin
When you drink the water, remember the spring.
Chinese Prove
Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams. They have different names but all contain water. Religions have different names, but all contain truth.
Muhammad Ali
A man may well bring a horse to the water but he cannot make him drink.
John Heywood
Our land is more valuable than your money. As long as the sun shines and the waters flow, this land will be here to give life to men and animals; therefore, we cannot sell this land. It was put here for us by the Great Spirit and we cannot sell it because it does not belong to us.
Blackfoot chief, (c. 1880)
The mountains, I become a part of it... The morning mists, the clouds, the gathering waters, I become a part of it.
Navajo Chant
Lakes, rivers, streams... all are water and all travel to the same destination. So it is with religion.
Muhammed Ali, in a television interview