Quotes of Water - somelinesforyou

“ 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

“ How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is clearly Ocean. ”

- Arthur C. Clarke

“ Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ The people are like water and the ruler a boat. Water can support a boat or overturn it. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics — none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high. ”

- Thomas H. Huxley

“ Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean. ”

- David Searls

“ Life is like the ocean currents; if you know not how to navigate, you're as good as lost. ”

- Greg Evans

“ You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you. ”

- Heraclitus of Ephesus

“ The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love. ”

- Bengali Hymn

“ Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you. ”

- John Muir

“ Delicious tears! The heart's own dew. ”

- Letitia Landon

“ Thousands have lived without love, not one without water. ”

- W.H. Auden

“ The ocean is a body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea. ”

- Bible

“ OCEAN, n. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man — who has no gills. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ The cure for anything is salt water — sweat, tears, or the sea. ”

- Isak Dinesen

“ The Lord will guide you continually, and satisfy your needs in parched places, and make your bones strong; and you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring of water, whose waters never fail. ”

- The Bible

“ Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water. ”

- Christopher Morley

“ Honor the ocean of love. ”

- George De Benneville

“ I bought my wife a new car. She called and said, 'There's water in the carburettor'. I said, 'Where's the car?' She said, 'In the lake'. ”

- Henry Youngman

“ Here's that which is too weak to be a sinner: Honest water, which ne'er left man i' th' mire. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ The rising world of waters dark and deep. ”

- John Milton

“ Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green one red. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Water its living strength first shows, When obstacles its course oppose. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ There's always been an assumption that ocean shipping coming in and out of the Great Lakes is critical to the economy. It isn't. ”

- John Taylor

“ How does the Water Come down at Lodore? ”

- Robert Southey

“ I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water. ”

- Amy Tan

“ 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

“ It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it. ”

- Dan Quayle
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