Water Quotes
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
You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.Heraclitus of Ephesus
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
Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.Margaret Fulle
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
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
Beauty is a form of genius - - Is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.Oscar Wilde
Lakes, rivers, streams... all are water and all travel to the same destination. So it is with religion.Muhammed Ali, in a television interview
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
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
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
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
In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans.Kahlil Gibran
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
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.Josh Billings
The first drink with water, the second without water, the third like water.Danish prove
Post - Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing.Charles Krauthamme
Our land is more valuable than your money. As long as the sun shines and the waters flow, this land will be here to give life to men and animals; therefore, we cannot sell this land. It was put here for us by the Great Spirit and we cannot sell it because it does not belong to us.Blackfoot chief, (c. 1880)
There will be no whitewash in the White House. On Watergate investigation.Richard Milhous Nixon
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
Like swift water an active mind never stagnates.Author Unknown
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 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
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
Water, everywhere over the earth, flows to join together. A single natural law controls it. Each human is a member of a community and should work within it.I Ching
The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.William Blake
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
A fool and water will go the way they are diverted.African Prove
With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of these things. Riches and honors acquired by unrighteousness are to me as a floating cloud.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.John Dryden
I pray thee cease thy counsel, Which falls into mine ears as profitless as water in a sieve.William Shakespeare
One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire help to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act.Hannah More
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
A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.Carl Reine
I want you to stonewall it. To staff on news of break - In at Watergate.Richard Milhous Nixon
Only cat lovers know the luxury of fur - Coated, musical hot water bottles that never go cold.Susanne Millen
