Water Quotes

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Miguel de Cervantes

You know something that would really make me applaud A guy gets stuck in quicksand, then sinks, then suddenly comes shooting out, riding on water skis How do they do that.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Blood is thicker than water, but politics are thicker than blood.

Frank Herbert, Dune

Enough shovels of earth.......................... a mountain. Enough pails of water............................... a river.

Chinese Prove

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

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

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

In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans.

Kahlil Gibran

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

French Prove

Lakes, rivers, streams... all are water and all travel to the same destination. So it is with religion.

Muhammed Ali, in a television interview

You can never step into the same river for new waters are always flowing on to you.

Heraclitus

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

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

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.

You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.

John Dryden

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

Let this be an example for the acquisition of all knowledge, virtue, and riches. By the fall of drops of water, by degrees, a pot is filled.

The Hitopadesa

Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams. They have different names but all contain water. Religions have different names, but all contain truth.

Muhammad Ali

Marty This tasteless cover is a good indication of the lack of musical invention within. The musical growth of this band cannot even be charted. They are treading water in a sea of retarded sexuality and bad poetry.

This Is Spinal Tap

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

I row after health like a waterman...

Jonathan Swift

The first drink with water, the second without water, the third like water.

Danish prove

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

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.

Josh Billings

Continental people have sex - Lives the English have hot - water bottles.

George Mikes

Human beings are seventy percent water, and with some the rest is collagen.

Martin Mull

The true miracle is not walking on water or walking in air, but simply walking on this earth.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.

Hans Margolius

Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.

A. Alvarez

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

I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.

G. K. Chesterton

When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Chinese Prove

You are beautiful, but you are empty. One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you - - The rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered.

Antoine de Saint - Exupery, The Little Prince

Don? t go chasin? waterfalls. Please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you? re used to.

TLC, Waterfalls

Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink. Water, water everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

W. H. Auden

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