Quotes
Quotes about Water
Hark, below, the many-voiced earth,
The chanting of the old religious trees,
Rustle of far-off waters, woven sounds
Of small and multitudinous lives awake,
Peopling the grasses and the pools with joy,
Uttering their meaning to the mystic night!
By the margin of fair Zurich's waters
Dwelt a youth, whose fond heart, night and day,
For the fairest of fair Zurich's daughters
In a dream of love melted away.
A life on the ocean wave!
A home on the rolling deep,
Where the scattered waters rave,
And the winds their revels keep!
All men possess in their bodies a poison which acts upon serpents; and the human saliva, it is said, makes them take to flight, as though they had been touched with boiling water. The same substance, it is said, destroys them the moment it enters their throat.
He said that in his whole life he most repented of three things: one was that he had trusted a secret to a woman; another, that he went by water when he might have gone by land; the third, that he had remained one whole day without doing any business of moment.
For water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.
And Archimedes, as he was washing, thought of a manner of computing the proportion of gold in King Hiero's crown by seeing the water flowing over the bathing-stool. He leaped up as one possessed or inspired, crying, "I have found it! Eureka!"
Like watermen, who look astern while they row the boat ahead.
Athenodorus says hydrophobia, or water-dread, was first discovered in the time of Asclepiades.
There are many marvellous stories told of Pherecydes. For it is said that he was walking along the seashore at Samos, and that seeing a ship sailing by with a fair wind, he said that it would soon sink; and presently it sank before his eyes. At another time he was drinking some water which had been drawn up out of a well, and he foretold that within three days there would be an earthquake; and there was one.
Anaximander used to assert that the primary cause of all things was the Infinite,--not defining exactly whether he meant air or water or anything else.
Why may not a goose say thus: "All the parts of the universe I have an interest in: the earth serves me to walk upon, the sun to light me; the stars have their influence upon me; I have such an advantage by the winds and such by the waters; there is nothing that yon heavenly roof looks upon so favourably as me. I am the darling of Nature! Is it not man that keeps and serves me?"
The tree of liberty only grows when watered by the blood of tyrants.
Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel.
As water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again.
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.
As the hart panteth after the water-brooks.
The noise of many waters.
They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters.
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.
Cast thy bread upon the waters; for thou shalt find it after many days.
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.
The stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water.
I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
