Water Quotes

The maxim that people should not have a right till they are ready to exercise it properly, is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

Thomas B. Macaulay

Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.

W. C. Fields

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exaulted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy... neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

John W. Gardne

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)

Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.

Buddha

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

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

If there is Magic on this planet, it is contained in water.

Loren

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

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

You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.

Heraclitus of Ephesus

There will be no whitewash in the White House. On Watergate investigation.

Richard Milhous Nixon

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.

Thomas Calyle

Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams. They have different names but all contain water. Religions have different names, but all contain truth.

Muhammad Ali

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

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

Husbands are awkward things to deal with even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender.

Mary Lorraine Buckley

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

Don? t go chasin? waterfalls. Please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you? re used to.

TLC, Waterfalls

Pour water on a sportswriter - - Instant horseshit.

Ted Williams

You are 87% water; the other 13% keeps you from drowning.

P. E. Morris

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

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

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

A woman is like a teabag, you never know how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

Mae West

Human beings are seventy percent water, and with some the rest is collagen.

Martin Mull

Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow.

Arthur Stringer, "The Silver Poppy".

Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.

William Shakespeare

My empty waterdish mocks me.

Bob the Dog

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.

Carl Reine

No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see.

Taoist Prove

You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.

John Dryden

Blood is thicker than water, but politics are thicker than blood.

Frank Herbert, Dune

Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink. Water, water everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

As a man can drink water from any side of a full tank, so the skilled theologian can wrest from any scripture that which will serve his purpose.

Bhagavad Gita

In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans.

Kahlil Gibran

Be on your guard against a silent dog and still water.

Latin Prove