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

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)

Describing her first day back in grade school after a long absence, a teacher said, It was like trying to hold 35 corks under water at the same time.

Mark Twain

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

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

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

Thomas Calyle

You are beautiful, but you are empty. One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you - - The rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered.

Antoine de Saint - Exupery, The Little Prince

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

Heraclitus of Ephesus

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

Taoist Prove

Pour water on a sportswriter - - Instant horseshit.

Ted Williams

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

Mark Twain

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

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

Like swift water an active mind never stagnates.

Author Unknown

My empty waterdish mocks me.

Bob the Dog

At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.

Pearl Buck

I like less the story that a frog if put in cold water will not bestir itself if that water is heated up slowly and gradually and will in the end let itself be boiled alive, too comfortable with continuity to realize that continuous change at some point may become intolerable and demand a change in behavior.

Charles Handy - The Age of Unreason

If a man is destined to drown, he will drown even in a spoonful of water.

Yiddish Prove

Two - Thirds of the earth is covered by water. The other third is covered by Garry Maddox.

Ralph Kine

Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.

Margaret Fulle

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

Mary Lorraine Buckley

The tree of Liberty needs to be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Thomas Jefferson

A fool and water will go the way they are diverted.

African Prove

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 can never step into the same river for new waters are always flowing on to you.

Heraclitus

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

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

John W. Gardne

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