Water Quotes
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
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
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
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.Carl Schurz
Continental people have sex - Lives the English have hot - water bottles.George Mikes
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
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.Oliver Wendell Holmes
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
An attempt is already underway to revise history - To leave the impression that the former president had nothing to do with Watergate. But there is no doubt about his obstruction of justice after the Watergate break - In.John J. Sirica
Husbands are awkward things to deal with even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender.Mary Lorraine Buckley
No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see.Taoist Prove
A woman is like a teabag, you never know how strong she is until you put her in hot water.Mae West
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
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
Sincere diplomacy is no more possible than dry water or wooden iron.Josef Stalin
Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.Hans Margolius
Streets full of water; please advise.Robert Benchley
Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink. Water, water everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
When one has tasted watermelon he knows what the angels eat.Mark Twain
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 da Vinci
My friend I consider you my brother. I know we are not blood, and blood is thicker than water, but your body already has all the blood it needs. You will always need water.Eric Pio
You could not step twice into the same river; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.Heraclitus, On the Universe
An American tragedy in which we all have played a part. On Watergate, announcing pardon of former President Richard M Nixon.Gerald R. Ford
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
When you drink the water, remember the spring.Chinese Prove
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 Way of Lao - Tzu
Water is the only drink for a wise man.Henry David Thoreau
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
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
What made the deepest impression upon you? inquired a friend one day of Lincoln, when you stood in the presence of the Falls of Niagara, the greatest of natural wonders? - - - - The thing that stuck me most forcibly when I saw the Falls, Lincoln responded with the characteristic deliberation, was where in the world did all that water come from?Author Unknown
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)
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.Miguel Cerbantes
Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.Buddha
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
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
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
For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst? Verily, when good is hungry is seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters.Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
