1,262 Quotes About Water

Choke me in the shallow water before I get too deep.

Water is insipid, inodorous, colorless and smooth.

I don't have any particular thing I do ritualistically. I do the same thing every day. I get up. Drink a lot of water. Have a wheatgrass shot. Drink some green juice. Eat as healthy as I can.

For fountains, they are a Great Beauty and Refreshment, but Pools mar all, and make the Garden unwholesome, and full of Flies and Frogs.

The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.

The human mind has claimed for water one of its highest values-the value of purity.

Strip the hills, drain the boglands, and you create flood conditions inevitably. Yet that is what we have been doing for years.

The church is no more religion than the masonry of the aqueduct is the water that flows through it.

You have seen a ship out on the bay, swinging with the tide, and seeming as if it would follow it; and yet it cannot, for down beneath the water it is anchored. So many a soul sways toward heaven, but cannot ascend thither, because it is anchored to some secret sin.