Water Quotes

The world has changed. I see it in the water. I feel it in the Earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, For none now live who remember it.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

P. E. Morris

When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Chinese Prove

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

W. H. Auden

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

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

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

Kelly Barton

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

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

Heraclitus

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

With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Chinese Prove

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

Iron rusts from disue; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks

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

Miguel Cerbantes

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

Pearl Buck

The true miracle is not walking on water or walking in air, but simply walking on this earth.

Thich Nhat Hanh

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

Heraclitus

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

Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow.

Arthur Stringer, "The Silver Poppy".

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

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 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

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

Chinese Prove

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

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

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

French Prove

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

Hans Margolius

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