Water Quotes
Water is the only drink for a wise man.Henry David Thoreau
Two - Thirds of the earth is covered by water. The other third is covered by Garry Maddox.Ralph Kine
A coalition of groups... is waging a massive propaganda campaign against the president of the United States. ... an all - Out attack. Their aim is total victory for themselves and total defeat for him. On Watergate crisis.Gerald R. Ford
I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate...Richard Milhous Nixon
You could not step twice into the same river for other waters are ever flowing on to you.Heraclitus
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
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
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
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.Thomas Calyle
A man may well bring a horse to the water but he cannot make him drink.John Heywood
Be on your guard against a silent dog and still water.Latin Prove
Upon those who step into the same rivers different and ever different waters flow down.Heraclitus of Ephesus
Blood is thicker than water, but politics are thicker than blood.Frank Herbert, Dune
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
I row after health like a waterman...Jonathan Swift
A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.Carl Reine
Blood may be thicker than water, but love is thicker than anything.Goldie Nash
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
Green Goblin The itsy bitsy spider climbed up the water spout. Down came the Goblin and took the spider out.Spider - Man
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
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
Describing her first day back in grade school after a long absence, a teacher said, It was like trying to hold 35 corks under water at the same time.Mark Twain
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
Husbands are awkward things to deal with even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender.Mary Lorraine Buckley
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
Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.W. H. Auden
The true miracle is not walking on water or walking in air, but simply walking on this earth.Thich Nhat Hanh
The mountains, I become a part of it... The morning mists, the clouds, the gathering waters, I become a part of it.Navajo Chant
At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.Pearl Buck
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
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
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
You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.John Dryden
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
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
No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see.Taoist Prove
