Water Quotes

A. alvarez - despair, in short, seeks its own environment as...
A fool and water will go the way they are diverted.
African Prove
Charles handy - the age of unreason - i like less the story that a frog if put in cold...
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
John heywood - a man may well bring a horse to the water but he...
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
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 tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants.
Bertrand Barere de Vieuzac
You could not step twice into the same river; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.
Heraclitus, On the Universe
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
People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
James Arthur Baldwin
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
A person has three choices in life. You can swim against the tide and get exhausted, or you can tread water and let the tide sweep you away, or you can swim with the tide, and let it take you where it wants you to go.
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Northern Lights, 1993
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
Be on your guard against a silent dog and still water.
Latin Prove
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 DaVinci
Continental people have sex - Lives the English have hot - water bottles.
George Mikes
Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on Richard Nixon.
Archibald Cox
An American tragedy in which we all have played a part. On Watergate, announcing pardon of former President Richard M Nixon.
Gerald R. Ford
You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.
Heraclitus of Ephesus
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
Husbands are awkward things to deal with even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender.
Mary Lorraine Buckley
Green Goblin The itsy bitsy spider climbed up the water spout. Down came the Goblin and took the spider out.
Spider - Man
Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.
Mark Twain
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
The first drink with water, the second without water, the third like water.
Danish prove
You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.
John Dryden
If you pump casually, you will pump forever. Pump hard to begin with and keep it up until you get that water flowing. Then a great deal will happen.
Zig Zigla
It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters.
Aesop
When the water reaches the upper level, follow the rats.
Claude Swanson
Don? t go chasin? waterfalls. Please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you? re used to.
TLC, Waterfalls
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
Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow.
Arthur Stringer, "The Silver Poppy".
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
Josh Billings
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
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
I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate...
Richard Milhous Nixon
Only cat lovers know the luxury of fur - Coated, musical hot water bottles that never go cold.
Susanne Millen
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
Henry David Thoreau
I pray thee cease thy counsel, Which falls into mine ears as profitless as water in a sieve.
William Shakespeare