Quotes about Water, page 2

American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about water

One of my favorite vacation places is Miami, because of the people, the water and the beach - of course - and the architecture on Miami Beach is so wonderful.

Quote by Oksana Baiul about water

The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.

Quote by Sfanta Tereza De Avila about water

By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.

Quote by Aeschylus about water

It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters.

Quote by Aesop about water

One realizes how we take water for granted and how important it is to have it in order to stay alive. Beyond the drinking of it, let's not forget the hygiene.

Quote by Kim Basinger about water

Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte about water

Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about water

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about water

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about water

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.

Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle about water

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...

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about water

Beware of the man who will not engage in idle conversation; he is planning to steal your walking stick or water your stock.

Quote by William Emerson about water

Hence a ship is said to be tight, when her planks are so compact and solid as to prevent the entrance of the water in which she is immersed: and a cask is called tight, when the staves are so close that none of the liquid contained therein can...

Quote by William Falconer about water

There's no sanitation and no running water, but the spirit of the people, their enthusiasm, their joy-the thing I carried away with me was a sense of human contact.

Quote by Ralph Fiennes about water

I don't understand people who like to work and talk about it like it was some sort of goddamn duty. Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.

Quote by Ava Gardner about water

Walking on water and developing software to specification are easy as long as both are frozen.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about water

Burning materials that require extinguishing by powder or gas will be treated with water.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about water

Water always is deeper then it appears.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about water

The steam iron only burps rusty water on light silk fabric.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about water