Water Quotes

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

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

G. K. Chesterton

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

Miguel de Cervantes

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

Water is the only drink for a wise man.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Martin Mull

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

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

Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.

Hans Margolius

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

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Mars is essentially in the same orbit... Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe.

Dan Quayle, 8/11/89

You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.

John Dryden

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

Josh Billings

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

Mark Twain

If you pump casually, you will pump forever. Pump hard to begin with and keep it up until you get that water flowing. Then a great deal will happen.

Zig Zigla

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

A. Alvarez

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

Fish, to taste good, must swim three times in water, in butter, and in wine.

Polish Prove

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

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

Pour water on a sportswriter - - Instant horseshit.

Ted Williams

There will be no whitewash in the White House. On Watergate investigation.

Richard Milhous Nixon

It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters.

Aesop

Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.

William Shakespeare

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

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

George Mikes