Water Quotes

Ovid - what is harder than rock, or softer than water...
We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
French Prove
Henry david thoreau - the finest workers in stone are not copper or...
Don? t go chasin? waterfalls. Please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you? re used to.
TLC, Waterfalls
Alfred a. montapert - avoid destructive thinking. improper negative...
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.
Miguel de Cervantes
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
A woman is like a tea bag - You never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Many politicians lay it down as a self - Evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.
Lord Macaulay
Lakes, rivers, streams... all are water and all travel to the same destination. So it is with religion.
Muhammed Ali, in a television interview
According to Democritus, truth lies at the bottom of a well, the water of which serves as a mirror in which objects may be reflected. I have heard, however, that some philosophers, in seeking for truth, to pay homage to her, have seen their own image and adored it instead.
Charles Richte
I row after health like a waterman...
Jonathan Swift
The true miracle is not walking on water or walking in air, but simply walking on this earth.
Thich Nhat Hanh
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
It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters.
Aesop
A man may well bring a horse to the water but he cannot make him drink.
John Heywood
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
Thomas Calyle
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
You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.
John Dryden
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
If you neglect to recharge a battery, it dies. And if you run full speed ahead without stopping for water, you lose momentum to finish the race.
Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, April 2003
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
Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.
William Shakespeare
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 mountains, I become a part of it... The morning mists, the clouds, the gathering waters, I become a part of it.
Navajo Chant
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
The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants.
Bertrand Barere de Vieuzac
It is occasionally possible to charge hell with a bucket of water, but against stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.
Doris Fleeson
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
It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.
Hunter S. Thompson
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
Enough shovels of earth.......................... a mountain. Enough pails of water............................... a river.
Chinese Prove
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.
Unknown
Fish, to taste good, must swim three times in water, in butter, and in wine.
Polish Prove
Like swift water an active mind never stagnates.
Author Unknown
There will be no whitewash in the White House. On Watergate investigation.
Richard Milhous Nixon
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
If a man is destined to drown, he will drown even in a spoonful of water.
Yiddish Prove
You are 87% water; the other 13% keeps you from drowning.
P. E. Morris
Water is the most neglected nutrient in your diet but one of the most vital.
Kelly Barton