Water Quotes
The world has changed. I see it in the water. I feel it in the Earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, For none now live who remember it.J. R. R. Tolkien
Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow.Arthur Stringer, "The Silver Poppy".
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
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
Fish, to taste good, must swim three times in water, in butter, and in wine.Polish Prove
Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.Margaret Fulle
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
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
When one has tasted watermelon he knows what the angels eat.Mark Twain
Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
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
You could not step twice into the same river for other waters are ever flowing on to you.Heraclitus
A man may well bring a horse to the water but he cannot make him drink.John Heywood
A woman is like a tea bag - You never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.Eleanor Roosevelt
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
When you drink the water, remember the spring.Chinese Prove
What is harder than rock, or softer than water Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.Ovid
Don? t go chasin? waterfalls. Please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you? re used to.TLC, Waterfalls
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
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
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
It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters.Aesop
No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see.Taoist Prove
Avoid destructive thinking. Improper negative thoughts sink people. A ship can sail around the world many, many times, but just let enough water get into the ship and it will sink. Just so with the human mind. Let enough negative thoughts or improper thoughts get into the human mind and the person sinks just like a ship.Alfred A. Montapert
Green Goblin The itsy bitsy spider climbed up the water spout. Down came the Goblin and took the spider out.Spider - Man
Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.A. Alvarez
An American tragedy in which we all have played a part. On Watergate, announcing pardon of former President Richard M Nixon.Gerald R. Ford
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 Rossetti, A Christmas Carol
Water is the only drink for a wise man.Henry David Thoreau
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
Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink. Water, water everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.Mark Twain
The political lesson of Watergate is this Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by - Pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election.Gerald R. Ford
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
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
Human beings are seventy percent water, and with some the rest is collagen.Martin Mull
