Water Quotes

"[Water is] the only drink for a wise man."
-Henry David Thoreau

"You ain't gonna miss your water until your well runs dry."
-Bob Marley

"Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody."
-Mark Twain

"A woman is like a tea bag- you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water."
-Eleanor Roosevelt

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

"Beauty is a form of genius-is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon."
-Oscar Wilde

"If a man is destined to drown, he will drown even in a spoonful of water."
-Yiddish proverb

"The last thing I have to say is that ice is the past tense of water. I've always wanted to write that sentence and now I have."
-Rita Mae Brown

"One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others."
-Lao tzu

"A little water is a sea to an ant."
-Afghan Proverb

"In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources has become the victim of his indifference."
-Rachel Carson

"In Amsterdam the water is the mistress and the land the vassal. throughout the city there are as many canals and drawbridges as bracelets on a Gypsy's bronzed arms."
-Felix Marti ibanez

"The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind."
-William Blake

"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

"The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea."
-Isak Dinesen

"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

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

"I pray thee cease thy counsel, Which falls into mine ears as profitless as water in a sieve."
-William Shakespeare

"A heart well worth winning, and well won. A heart that, once won, goes through fire and water for the winner, and never changes, and is never daunted."
-Charles Dickens

"I believe that any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high water mark of pure and useful living."
-Booker T. Washington

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

"Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind."
-Leonardo da Vinci

"Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation ... even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind."
-Leonardo da Vinci

"Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue."
-Confucius

"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

"Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?"
-Steve Jobs

"If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read 'President Can't Swim'."
-Lyndon B. Johnson

"Globalization is not something we can hold off or turn off . . . it is the economic equivalent of a force of nature -- like wind or water."
-Bill Clinton