Water is the mother of the vine,
The nurse and fountain of fecundity,
The adorner and refresher of the world.
Charles Mackay
Quotes , Source: The Dionysia
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Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through
it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over
rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are
timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of
the words are theirs.
I am haunted by waters.
Norman Fitzroy Maclean
Quotes , Source: A River Runs Through It
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The rising world of waters dark and deep.
John Milton
Quotes , Source: Paradise Lost (bk. III, l. 11)
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I'm very fond of water:
It ever must delight
Each mother's son and daughter,--
When qualified aright.
Lord Charles Neaves
Quotes , Source: I'm very fond of Water
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It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is
mastering you.
[Lat., Miserum est opus,
Igitur demum fodere puteum, ubi sitis fauces tedet.]
Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Quotes , Source: Mostellaria (II, 1, 32)
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A Rechabite poor Will must live,
And drink of Adam's ale.
Matthew Prior
Quotes , Source: The Wandering Pilgrim
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Here's that which is too weak to be a sinner:
Honest water, which ne'er left man i' th' mire.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: The Life of Timon of Athens (Apemantus at I, ii)
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What, man! more water glideth by the mill
That wots the miller of; and easy it is
Of a cut loaf to steal a shive, we know:
Though Bassianus be the emperor's brother,
Better then he have worn Vulcan's badge.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: Titus Andronicus (Demetrius at II, i)
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O Lord! methought what pain it was to drown!
What dreadful noise of waters in mine ears!
What sights of ugly death within mine eyes!
Methoughts I saw a thousand fearful wracks;
A thousand men that fishes gnawed upon;
Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl,
Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels,
All scatt'red in the bottom of the sea:
Some lay in dead men's skulls, and in the holes
Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept
(As 'twere in scorn of eyes) reflecting gems,
That wooed the slimy bottom of the deep
And mocked the dead bones that lay scatt'red by.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (Clarence at I, iv)
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The people are like water and the ruler a boat. Water can
support a boat or overturn it.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (Clarence at I, iv)
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'Tis a little thing
To give a cup of water; yet its draught
Of cool refreshment, drain'd by fever'd lips,
May give a shock of pleasure to the frame
More exquisite than when nectarean juice
Renews the life of joy in happiest hours.
Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (Talford)
Quotes , Source: Ion (act I, sc. 2), (Sonnet III)
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How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood,
When fond recollection presents them to view.
. . . .
The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket,
The moss-covered bucket, which hung in the well.
Samuel Woodworth
Quotes , Source: The Old Oaken Bucket
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How sweet from the green mossy brim to receive it,
As, poised on the curb, it inclined to my lips!
Not a full blushing goblet could tempt me to leave it,
The brightest that beauty or revelry sips.
Samuel Woodworth
Quotes , Source: The Old Oaken Bucket
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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
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