| Author |
Quotes |
| Anonymous | Pure water is the best of gifts that man to man can bring, But who am I that I should have the best of anything? Let princes revel at the pump, let peers with ponds make free, Whisky, or wine, or even beer is good enough for me. |
| Bible | For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him. |
| Bible | The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea. |
| Buddha | 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. |
| Bulgarian Proverb | If you wish to drown, do not torture yourself with shallow water. |
| Charles Mackay | Water is the mother of the vine, The nurse and fountain of fecundity, The adorner and refresher of the world. |
| Elizabeth Oakes Smith | 'Tis rushing now adown the spout, And gushing out below, Half frantic in its joyousness, And wild in eager flow. The earth is dried and parched with heat, And it hath long'd to be Released from out the selfish cloud, To cool the thirsty tree. |
| German Proverb | A flatterer has water in one hand and fire in the other. |
| Ghanaian Proverb | It is the calm and silent water that drowns a man. |
| Heraclitus of Ephesus | You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you. |
| Hilda Conkling | The world turns softly Not to spill its lakes and rivers, The water is held in its arms And the sky is held in the water. What is water, That pours silver, And can hold the sky? |
| Isak Dinesen | The cure for anything is salt water -- sweat, tears, or the sea. |
| Korean Proverb | The deeper the waters are, the more still they run. |
| Larry Neal | I have drunk deep of the waters of my ancestors. |
| Lily Tomlin | The formula for water is H2O. Is the formula for an ice cube H2O squared? |
| Lord Charles Neaves | I'm very fond of water: It ever must delight Each mother's son and daughter,-- When qualified aright. |
| Matthew Prior | A Rechabite poor Will must live, And drink of Adam's ale. |
| Portuguese Proverb | Beware of silent dogs and still waters. |
| Robert Southey | And so never ending, But always descending. |
| Robert Southey | "How does the Water Come down at Lodore?" |
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