water quotes

• When the well is dry, they know the worth of water. (Benjamin Franklin) [water]
• The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. (William Blake) [water/mind]
• There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) [life/chance/water]
• A woman would run through fire and water for such a kind heart. (William Shakespeare) [water]
• Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible. (Joseph Addison) [mind/water]
• I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone. (Tallulah Bankhead) [life/water]
• Expect poison from standing water. (William Blake) [water]
• The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. (William Blake) [opinion/water/mind]
• Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy. ( Napoleon I) [water]
• Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint. (Samuel Butler) [evil/water]
• When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that has not been filtered through either the berry of a grape, or else a tub of malt. These are the most reliable filters yet invented. (Samuel Butler) [water/]
• I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea. (Miguel De Cervantes) [water]
• Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water. (Miguel De Cervantes) [truth/water]
• Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water. (Miguel De Cervantes) [truth/willpower/water]
• I believe in getting into hot water. I think it keeps you clean. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [water/think]
• As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved. (Marcus Cicero) [water/character]
• With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow -- I have still joy in the midst of all these things. ( Confucius) [water//joy]
• By his machines man can dive and remain under water like a shark; can fly like a hawk in the air; can see atoms like a gnat; can see the system of the universe of Uriel, the angel of the sun; can carry whatever loads a ton of coal can lift; can knock down cities with his fist of gunpowder; can recover the history of his race by the medals which the deluge, and every creature, civil or savage or brute, has involuntarily dropped of its existence; and divine the future possibility of the planet and its inhabitants by his perception of laws of nature. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [water/system/universe/angel]
• The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [persecution/nature/water]
• The real antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity. (Eric Hoffer) [wine/water]
• No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water. ( Horace) [give/pleasure/water]
• 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) [love/water]
• I am done with great things and big plans, great institutions and big success. I am for those tiny, invisible loving human forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, which, if given time, will rend the hardest monuments of pride. (William James) [human/water/time/willpower]
• Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labors, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. (Samuel Johnson) [lord/life/water/take]
• He comes into the world God knows how, walks on the water, gets out of his grave and goes up off the Hill of Howth. What drivel is this? (James Joyce) [god/water]
• I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top. (John Keats) [water/top]
• You can milk a cow the wrong way once and still be a farmer, but vote the wrong way on a water tower and you can be in trouble. (John F. Kennedy) [water]
• Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it. ( Laozi) [more/water/change]
• In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it. ( Laozi) [more/water]
• Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it. ( Laozi) [more/water/change]
• In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it. ( Laozi) [more/water]

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