Water Quotes
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
Two - Thirds of the earth is covered by water. The other third is covered by Garry Maddox.Ralph Kine
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
You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.John Dryden
A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.Carl Reine
I want you to stonewall it. To staff on news of break - In at Watergate.Richard Milhous Nixon
Human beings are seventy percent water, and with some the rest is collagen.Martin Mull
Streets full of water; please advise.Robert Benchley
Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.W. C. Fields
Like swift water an active mind never stagnates.Author Unknown
The true miracle is not walking on water or walking in air, but simply walking on this earth.Thich Nhat Hanh
Blood may be thicker than water, but love is thicker than anything.Goldie Nash
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
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
I pray thee cease thy counsel, Which falls into mine ears as profitless as water in a sieve.William Shakespeare
Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.Hans Margolius
Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.W. H. Auden
If you pump casually, you will pump forever. Pump hard to begin with and keep it up until you get that water flowing. Then a great deal will happen.Zig Zigla
The law is not so much carved in stone as it is written in water, flowing in and out with the tide.Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Crime and Punishment, 1992
I believe in getting into hot water it keeps you clean.G. K. Chesterton
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.
The world has changed. I see it in the water. I feel it in the Earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, For none now live who remember it.J. R. R. Tolkien
You are 87% water; the other 13% keeps you from drowning.P. E. Morris
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
Continental people have sex - Lives the English have hot - water bottles.George Mikes
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
Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn? t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 02 - 14 - 2003
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
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
A coalition of groups... is waging a massive propaganda campaign against the president of the United States. ... an all - Out attack. Their aim is total victory for themselves and total defeat for him. On Watergate crisis.Gerald R. Ford
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
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
Water is the only drink for a wise man.Henry David Thoreau
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
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
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
