Water Quotes

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it. (Laozi)
Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow. View quote
Plutarch
It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters. View quote
Aesop
The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone. View quote
Lucretius
A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water. View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt
All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea. View quote
Karen Blixen
Now that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing - to learn to live on earth as human beings. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world? (Steve Jobs)
I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir. View quote
David Bowie
My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water. View quote
Mark Twain
Lie on the bridge and watch the water flowing past. Or run, or wade through the swamp in your red boots. Or roll yourself up and listen to the rain falling on the roof. It's very easy to enjoy yourself. View quote
Tove Jansson
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. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo. View quote
Bruce Lee
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend. View quote
Bruce Lee
I got this powdered water - now I don't know what to add. View quote
Steven Wright
My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them. View quote
Mitch Hedberg
Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self. View quote
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
Whilst traveling through Afghanistan, we lost our corkscrew. Had to live on food and water for several days. (W. C. Fields)
You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it. View quote
W. C. Fields
Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water. View quote
W. C. Fields
To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float. View quote
Alan Watts
Digital files cannot be made uncopyable, any more than water can be made not wet. View quote
Bruce Schneier
📖 Water Proverbs