Water Quotes
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.Miguel Cerbantes
Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - The wheel, New York, wars and so on - while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - For precisely the same reason.Douglas Noel Adams
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
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
As a man can drink water from any side of a full tank, so the skilled theologian can wrest from any scripture that which will serve his purpose.Bhagavad Gita
Enough shovels of earth.......................... a mountain. Enough pails of water............................... a river.Chinese Prove
When one has tasted watermelon he knows what the angels eat.Mark Twain
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)
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.
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
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
At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.Pearl Buck
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
Only cat lovers know the luxury of fur - Coated, musical hot water bottles that never go cold.Susanne Millen
Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.Kahlil Gibran
You could not step twice into the same river for other waters are ever flowing on to you.Heraclitus
Mars is essentially in the same orbit... Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe.Dan Quayle, 8/11/89
Husbands are awkward things to deal with even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender.Mary Lorraine Buckley
From Watergate we learned what generations before us have known our Constitution works. And during Watergate years it was interpreted again so as to reaffirm that no one - Absolutely no one - Is above the law.Leon Jaworski
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.G. K. Chesterton
The Green Party is like a watermelon - Green on the outside and red on the inside.Rep. Bill Dannemeyer, R - Fullerton
Pour water on a sportswriter - - Instant horseshit.Ted Williams
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
I row after health like a waterman...Jonathan Swift
Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink. Water, water everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I pray thee cease thy counsel, Which falls into mine ears as profitless as water in a sieve.William Shakespeare
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
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
Like swift water an active mind never stagnates.Author Unknown
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
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
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
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
With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.Chinese Prove
A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.Carl Reine
What is harder than rock, or softer than water Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.Ovid
