Water Quotes

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

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

You are 87% water; the other 13% keeps you from drowning.

P. E. Morris

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

An American tragedy in which we all have played a part. On Watergate, announcing pardon of former President Richard M Nixon.

Gerald R. Ford

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 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

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

The political lesson of Watergate is this Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by - Pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election.

Gerald R. Ford

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

Kahlil Gibran

Tears are the rinse water of an unhappy heart.

Raynor Schein

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

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

Kelly Barton

Women are like teabags. You dont know how strong they are until you put them in hot water.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

G. K. Chesterton

Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - The wheel, New York, wars and so on - while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - For precisely the same reason.

Douglas Noel Adams

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

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

French Prove

The maxim that people should not have a right till they are ready to exercise it properly, is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

Thomas B. Macaulay

My empty waterdish mocks me.

Bob the Dog

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

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

Susanne Millen

There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.

Kate Chopin

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

Heraclitus

The tree of Liberty needs to be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Thomas Jefferson

I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate...

Richard Milhous Nixon

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

The law is not so much carved in stone as it is written in water, flowing in and out with the tide.

Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Crime and Punishment, 1992

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