Water Quotes

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

Blood may be thicker than water, but love is thicker than anything.

Goldie Nash

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

Latin Prove

You know something that would really make me applaud A guy gets stuck in quicksand, then sinks, then suddenly comes shooting out, riding on water skis How do they do that.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

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

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

Martin Mull

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.

Josh Billings

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

The Green Party is like a watermelon - Green on the outside and red on the inside.

Rep. Bill Dannemeyer, R - Fullerton

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

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

Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.

W. C. Fields

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

Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted, If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters returning Back to their springs, like the rain shall fill them full of refreshment; That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

I want you to stonewall it. To staff on news of break - In at Watergate.

Richard Milhous Nixon

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

Heraclitus

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

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

Frank Herbert, Dune

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

Let this be an example for the acquisition of all knowledge, virtue, and riches. By the fall of drops of water, by degrees, a pot is filled.

The Hitopadesa

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

Ralph Kine

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

Thomas Jefferson

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

Mark Twain

I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate...

Richard Milhous Nixon

Only cat lovers know the luxury of fur - Coated, musical hot water bottles that never go cold.

Susanne Millen

The first drink with water, the second without water, the third like water.

Danish prove

I pray thee cease thy counsel, Which falls into mine ears as profitless as water in a sieve.

William Shakespeare

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

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

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

Heraclitus of Ephesus

Beauty is a form of genius - - Is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.

Oscar Wilde

The function of government ought to be: make sure you have good water to drink, somebody picking up the garbage, good roads to drive on, enough electricity to turn your light bulbs and your record player on, and whatever smaller amounts of regulatory assistance is necessary to make this society work.

Frank Zappa, Interview with this submitter, New York City, 5/08/1980

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

Carl Reine

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

I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.

G. K. Chesterton

Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.

A. Alvarez