Water Quotes

Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.

W. C. Fields

Blood is thicker than water, but politics are thicker than blood.

Frank Herbert, Dune

You should respect each other and refrain from disputes you should not, like water and oil, repel each other, but should, like milk and water, mingle together.

Buddha

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

Miguel de Cervantes

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

For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst? Verily, when good is hungry is seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters.

Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

A woman is like a tea bag - You never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams. They have different names but all contain water. Religions have different names, but all contain truth.

Muhammad Ali

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

Kate Chopin

Water generally flows downhill in this area.

Bob Bennett, WDIV News 4, Detroit, reporting on a flood that destroyed some suburban basement apartments.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - And the stars through his soul.

Victor Hugo

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

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

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

When one has tasted watermelon he knows what the angels eat.

Mark Twain

Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.

Carl Schurz

I row after health like a waterman...

Jonathan Swift

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

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

P. E. Morris

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

Kelly Barton

The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.

Robert Fulghum, It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It

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

Martin Mull

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

Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.

Margaret Fulle

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

Thich Nhat Hanh

Tears are the rinse water of an unhappy heart.

Raynor Schein

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

I want you to stonewall it. To staff on news of break - In at Watergate.

Richard Milhous Nixon