1,262 Quotes About Water


  • Author Avicenna
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    It is in the nature of water ... to become transformed into earth through a predominating earthy virtue; ... it is in the nature of earth to become transformed into water through a predominating aqueous virtue.

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  • Author Dante Alighieri
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    And as he, who with laboring breath has escaped from the deep to the shore, turns to the perilous waters and gazes.

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  • Author Dave Attell
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    It's a horrible economy but I'm trying to do my part. I just bought a new shower curtain it has all the presidents on it. Do you know how hard it is to masturbate with all the presidents staring at you? And when the water hits them it looks like they're crying.

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  • Author Dear Abbey
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    Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for the piping. And the piper.

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  • Author Edward Abbey
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    Saving the world was merely a hobby. My *vocation* has been that of inspector of desert water holes.

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  • Author Henry Adams
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    My own conclusion is that history is simply social development along the lines of weakest resistance, and that in most cases the line of weakest resistance is found as unconsciously by society as by water.

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  • Author Henry Adams
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    Charles Sumner's mind had reached the calm of WATER which receives and reflects images without absorbing them; it contains nothing but itself.

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