Water Quotes

“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.”  Lao Tzu Quotes

“Water is life's mater and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.”  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Quotes

“Don't you realize that the sea is the home of water? All water is off on a journey unless it's in the sea, and it's homesick, and bound to make its way home someday”  Zora Neale Hurston Quotes

“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 Quotes

“Water which is too pure has no fish”  Afghan Proverb Quotes

“Fire, water and government know nothing of mercy.”  Proverb Quotes

“Water is the only drink for a wise man.”  Henry David Thoreau Quotes

“The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.”  Pamela Hansford Johnson Quotes

“Still waters run no mills.”  Unknown Quotes

“Still waters run no mills.”  Unknown Quotes

“Pure water is the best of gifts that man to man can bring, But who am I that I should have the best of anything? Let princes revel at the pump, let peers with ponds make free, Whisky, or wine, or even beer is good enough for me.”  Anonymous Quotes Source: in the "Spectator", July 31, 1920, sometimes attributed to Hon. G.W.E. Russell or to Lord Neaves

“Pouring oil on troubled water.”  Bede "The Venerable" Quotes Source: Historia Ecclesiastica (bk. III, ch. XV, p. 142), (Hussey's ed.)

“Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginnings of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power: Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.”  Bible Quotes Source: Genesis (ch. XLIX, v. 3-4)

“For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.”  Bible Quotes Source: II Samuel (ch. XIV, v. 14)

“The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.”  Bible Quotes Source: Psalms (ch. XCIII, v. 4)

“A cup of cold Adam from the next purling stream.”  Tom Brown Quotes Source: Works (vol. IV, p. 11)

“The miller sees not all the water that goes by his mill.”  Robert Burton Quotes Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. III, sec. III, memb. 4, subsect. 1)

“Till taught by pain, Men really know not what good water's worth; If you had been in Turkey or in Spain, Or with a famish'd boat's-crew had your berth, Or in the desert heard the camel's bell, You'd wish yourself where Truth is--in a well.”  Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto II, st. 84)

“Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink. The very deep did rot: O Christ! That ever this should be! Yes, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea.”  Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes Source: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (pt. II, st. 9)

“The world turns softly Not to spill its lakes and rivers, The water is held in its arms And the sky is held in the water. What is water, That pours silver, And can hold the sky?”  Hilda Conkling Quotes Source: Water

“Water its living strength first shows, When obstacles its course oppose.”  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes Source: God, Soul, and World--Rhymed Distichs

“And pines with thirst amidst a sea of waves.”  Homer ("Smyrns of Chios") Quotes Source: The Odyssey (bk. XI, l. 722), (Pope's translation)

“Water is the mother of the vine, The nurse and fountain of fecundity, The adorner and refresher of the world.”  Charles Mackay Quotes Source: The Dionysia

“Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters.”  Norman Fitzroy Maclean Quotes Source: A River Runs Through It

“The rising world of waters dark and deep.”  John Milton Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. III, l. 11)