Water Quotes

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

George Mikes

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

Only cat lovers know the luxury of fur - Coated, musical hot water bottles that never go cold.

Susanne Millen

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

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

Be on your guard against a silent dog and still water.

Latin Prove

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

Heraclitus

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

Danish prove

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

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

Chinese Prove

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

Muhammad Ali

One kernel is felt in a hogshead one drop of water helps to swell the ocean a spark of fire helps 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

I want you to stonewall it. To staff on news of break - In at Watergate.

Richard Milhous Nixon

It is occasionally possible to charge hell with a bucket of water, but against stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.

Doris Fleeson

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

Water is the most neglected nutrient in your diet but one of the most vital.

Kelly Barton

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

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

The Green Party is like a watermelon - Green on the outside and red on the inside.

Rep. Bill Dannemeyer, R - Fullerton

My empty waterdish mocks me.

Bob the Dog

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

Josh Billings

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

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

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

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

G. K. Chesterton

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

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

You should respect each other and refrain from disputes you should not, like water and oil, repel each other, but should, like milk and water, mingle together.

Buddha

Genius is a bend in the creek where bright water has gathered, and which mirrors the trees, the sky and the banks. It just does that because it is there and the scenery is there. Talent is a fine mirror with a silver frame, with the name of the owner engraved on the back.

Edgar Lee Masters

I pray thee cease thy counsel, Which falls into mine ears as profitless as water in a sieve.

William Shakespeare

The best man is like water. Water is good it benefits all things and does not compete with them. It dwells in lowly places that all disdain. This is why it is so near to Tao.

Lao Tzu

The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

William Blake

You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.

Heraclitus of Ephesus

Water generally flows downhill in this area.

Bob Bennett, WDIV News 4, Detroit, reporting on a flood that destroyed some suburban basement apartments.

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

Kahlil Gibran

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