Water Quotes
Fish, to taste good, must swim three times in water, in butter, and in wine.Polish Prove
A woman is like a teabag, you never know how strong she is until you put her in hot water.Mae West
Streets full of water; please advise.Robert Benchley
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
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 met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - And the stars through his soul.Victor Hugo
Be on your guard against a silent dog and still water.Latin Prove
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
When the water reaches the upper level, follow the rats.Claude Swanson
Human beings are seventy percent water, and with some the rest is collagen.Martin Mull
A man may well bring a horse to the water but he cannot make him drink.John Heywood
It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters.Aesop
Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.A. Alvarez
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
You could not step twice into the same river; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.Heraclitus, On the Universe
My empty waterdish mocks me.Bob the Dog
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
Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.Mark Twain
Iron rusts from disue; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks
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
Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.Margaret Fulle
The political lesson of Watergate is this Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by - Pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election.Gerald R. Ford
Like swift water an active mind never stagnates.Author Unknown
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
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
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
Continental people have sex - Lives the English have hot - water bottles.George Mikes
When one has tasted watermelon he knows what the angels eat.Mark Twain
The true miracle is not walking on water or walking in air, but simply walking on this earth.Thich Nhat Hanh
Only cat lovers know the luxury of fur - Coated, musical hot water bottles that never go cold.Susanne Millen
The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.William Blake
I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate...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
No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see.Taoist Prove
The tree of Liberty needs to be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.Thomas Jefferson
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
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)
