Quotes
Quotes about Water
The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea four things say not, It is enough: The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that saith not, It is enough.
Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself Till by broad spreading it disperse to naught.
You can't hit a home run unless you step up to the plate. You can't catch a fish unless you put your line in the water. You can't reach your goals if you don't try.
I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.
O Rock of Israel, Rock of Salvation, Rock struck and cleft for me, let those two streams of blood and water which once gushed out of thy side . . . bring down with them salvation and holiness into my soul.
A ball will always come to rest halfway down a hill, unless there is sand or water at the bottom.
One may not doubt that, somehow Good Shall come of Water and of Mud; And sure, the reverent eye must see A purpose in Liquidity.
The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water, and yet thirsty.
This grief is crowned with consolation, you old smock brings forth a new petticoat, and indeed the tears live in an onion that should water this sorrow.
Oh, Mirth and Innocence! Oh, Milk and Water! Ye happy mixture of more happy days!
Light breaks where no sun shines; / Where no sea runs, the waters of the heart / Push in their tides. -Dylan Thomas.
The road to heaven lies as near by water as by land.
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?
You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim.".
Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.
I plucked a honeysuckle where The hedge on high is quick with thorn, And climbing for the prize, was torn, And fouled my feet in quag-water; And by the thorns and by the wind The blossom that I took was thinn'd And yet I found it sweet and fair.
Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender.
Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves. [Lat., Cernis ut ignavum corrumpant otia corpus Ut capiant vitium ni moveantur aquae.]
Seem'd washing his hand with invisible soap In imperceptible water.
Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.
Indecision is like a stepchild: if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water.
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong. -Lao-Tzu (600 B.C.).
