Water Quotes

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

Heraclitus of Ephesus

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

At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.

Pearl Buck

A coalition of groups... is waging a massive propaganda campaign against the president of the United States. ... an all - Out attack. Their aim is total victory for themselves and total defeat for him. On Watergate crisis.

Gerald R. Ford

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

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

Post - Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing.

Charles Krauthamme

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

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

French Prove

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

Martin Mull

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

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

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

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

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

Josh Billings

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

Into this Universe, and Why not knowing Nor Whence, like Water, willy - Nilly flowing And out of it, as Wind along the Waste, I know not Wither, willy - Nilly blowing.

Omar Khayym

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

A. Alvarez

I like less the story that a frog if put in cold water will not bestir itself if that water is heated up slowly and gradually and will in the end let itself be boiled alive, too comfortable with continuity to realize that continuous change at some point may become intolerable and demand a change in behavior.

Charles Handy - The Age of Unreason

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 empty waterdish mocks me.

Bob the Dog

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

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

Miguel Cerbantes

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

No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see.

Taoist Prove

Husbands are awkward things to deal with even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender.

Mary Lorraine Buckley

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

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

G. K. Chesterton

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.

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

William Blake

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

W. H. Auden

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

Mark Twain

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

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

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

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

John W. Gardne

The mountains, I become a part of it... The morning mists, the clouds, the gathering waters, I become a part of it.

Navajo Chant