| Dehydrated H2O: just add water. |
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can
the floods drown it. |
Only a fool tests the depth of the water
with both feet.
African Proverb |
STREETS FULL OF WATER.
PLEASE ADVISE.
Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
US humorist On arriving in Venice; |
But somewhere, beyond Space and Time, Is
wetter water, slimier slime! And there (they trust) there swimmeth One
Who swam ere rivers were begun, Immense, of fishy form and mind, Squamous, omnipotent, and kind.
Rupert Brooke (1887 - 1915)
English poet
Heaven. |
Let yourself be open and life will be
easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable.
A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.
Buddha (563BC - 483BC)
Indian religious leader From "Charades," an internet collection of
quotations |
The public buys its opinions as it buys its
meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do
this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be
watered.
Samuel Butler (b) (1835 - 1902) English novelist, satirist,
scholar "Notebooks." |
To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a
simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats
and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit.
It takes power to do that.
Carlos Castaneda (1931) US anthropologist,
writer In The Ultimate Success Quotations Library, 1997. |
In shallow waters, shrimps make fools of
dragons.
Chinese Proverb |
When you drink the water, remember the
spring.
Chinese Proverb |
The cure for anything is salt water --
sweat, tears, or the sea.
Isak Dinesen (1885 - 1962)
Danish short-story
writer
In "Reader's Digest," 1 Apr 1964. |
From a drop of water a logician could infer
the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard
of one or the other.
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930)
"A Study in Scarlet," pt. 1, ch. 2, 1887. |
| A fool is thirsty in the midst of water.
Ethiopian Proverb |
It is the calm and silent water that drowns
a man.
Ghanaian Proverb |
This land is your land, this land is my
land, From California to the New York Island. From the redwood forest
to the Gulf Stream waters, This land was made for you and me. Woody
Guthrie (1912 - 1967) US folksinger, songwriter, balladeer
"This Land Is Your Land" (1956 song). |
Catholics and Communists have committed
great crimes, but at least they have not stood aside, like an
established society, and been indifferent. I would rather have blood on
my hands than water like Pilate.
Graham Henry Greene (1904 - 1991)
English novelist The Comedians," Pt. III, Ch. 4 |
You could not step twice into the same
rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.
Heraclitus of
Ephesus (535?BC - 475NULLBC) Greek philosopher Quoted in: Hippocrates,
On The Universe, aph.41. |
A great ship asks deep water.
George Herbert
(1593 - 1633) English author, poet In "The Speaker's Electronic
Reference Collection," Apex Software, 1994. |
Don't bargain for fish which are still in
the water.
Indian Proverb |
The deeper the waters are, the more still
they run.
Korean Proverb
|
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.
Lao-Tzu (c. 570B) Chinese philosopher |
Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses
its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; so does inaction sap the vigor's
of the mind.
Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519) Italian painter,
sculptor, architect, engineer In "Pearls of Wisdom," ed. J. Agel and W.
Glanze, 1987. |
If you reject the food, ignore the customs,
fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home. You
are like a pebble thrown into water; you become wet on the surface, but
are never part of the water.
James Michener (1907 - 1997)
US novelist In
"Good Advice," ed.
Wm. Safire & Leonard Safire, 1982. |
One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop
of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire help to give light to
the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service.
Think of this and act.
Hannah More (1745 - 1833) English writer In "Poor
Man's College Quotations Collection," ed. Sidney Madwed, AAPEX software,
1994. |
Now, on the road to freedom, I was pausing
for a moment near Temuco and could hear the voice of the water that had
taught me to sing.
Pablo Neruda (1904 - 1973) Chilean poet, diplomat,
Marxist On view of his childhood home of Temuco, Argentina, as he fled a
new political regime in Chile, in "Wall Street Journal," 14 Nov 1985. |
You can't cross the sea merely by standing
and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.
Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941) Bengali poet, novelist, composer In
"Correct Quotes for DOS," WordStar International, 1991. |
| Any water in the desert will do.
Saudi
Arabian Proverb |
Smooth runs the water where the brook is
deep.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) English dramatist, poet "Henry
VI," Pt II," III. i. (53). |
| Don't throw away the old bucket until you
know whether the new one holds water. Swedish Proverb |
In the confrontation between the stream and
the rock, the stream always wins - not through strength, but through
persistence.- Anonymous |
"Man had always assumed that he was more
intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much... the wheel,
New York, wars, and so on, whilst all the dolphins had ever done was
muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely the dolphins
believed themselves to be more intelligent than man for precisely the
same reasons."
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy |
"As a man can drink water from any side of a full tank,
so the skilled theologian can wrest from any scripture that which will
serve his purpose. ''
- The Bhagavad Gita |
| William Shakespeare (1564-1616) QUOTATION:
Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm off from an
anointed king. |
Colley Cibber (1671-1757)
QUOTATION: This
business will never hold water. |
| Julia A. Fletcher Carney (1824-1908)
QUOTATION: Little drops of water, little grains of sand, Make the mighty
ocean and the pleasant land. |
John Heywood (1497?-1580?) QUOTATION: A man
may well bring a horse to the water, But he cannot make him drink
without he will. |
| Robert Burton (1577-1640) QUOTATION: The
miller sees not all the water that goes by his mill. |
Douglas William Jerrold (1803-1857)
QUOTATION: He was so good he would pour rose-water on a toad. |
The artist produces for the liberation of
his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run
down the hill.
W. Somerset Maugham |
"Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best
relieved by the letting of a little water. ''
- Antoine Rivarol |
| "A Riverside, California, health ordinance
states that two persons may not kiss each other without first wiping
their lips with carbonized rosewater. '' |
"Air is water with holes in it '' |
