Water Quotes
Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.Hans Margolius
You are 87% water; the other 13% keeps you from drowning.P. E. Morris
You could not step twice into the same river; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.Heraclitus, On the Universe
Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.W. C. Fields
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 Way of Lao - Tzu
You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.John Dryden
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
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.Miguel de Cervantes
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
The highest goodness is like water. Water benefits all things and does not compete. It stays in the lowly places which others despise. Therefore it is near The Eternal.Lao Tzu
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.
Upon those who step into the same rivers different and ever different waters flow down.Heraclitus of Ephesus
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
With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.Chinese Prove
Pour water on a sportswriter - - Instant horseshit.Ted Williams
We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.French Prove
Post - Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing.Charles Krauthamme
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
A woman is like a teabag, you never know how strong she is until you put her in hot water.Mae West
Two - Thirds of the earth is covered by water. The other third is covered by Garry Maddox.Ralph Kine
There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.Kate Chopin
As a man can drink water from any side of a full tank, so the skilled theologian can wrest from any scripture that which will serve his purpose.Bhagavad Gita
Husbands are awkward things to deal with even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender.Mary Lorraine Buckley
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
I believe in getting into hot water it keeps you clean.G. K. Chesterton
Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.W. H. Auden
Blood is thicker than water, but politics are thicker than blood.Frank Herbert, Dune
A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.Carl Reine
Streets full of water; please advise.Robert Benchley
Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted, If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters returning Back to their springs, like the rain shall fill them full of refreshment; That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The mountains, I become a part of it... The morning mists, the clouds, the gathering waters, I become a part of it.Navajo Chant
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.Miguel Cerbantes
I row after health like a waterman...Jonathan Swift
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
It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.Hunter S. Thompson
From Watergate we learned what generations before us have known our Constitution works. And during Watergate years it was interpreted again so as to reaffirm that no one - Absolutely no one - Is above the law.Leon Jaworski
Women are like teabags. You dont know how strong they are until you put them in hot water.Eleanor Roosevelt
