Best Water Proverbs
6300 Water quotes by 3450 unique authors
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Today the guns are silent. A great tragedy has ended. A great victory has been won. The skies no longer rain with death - the…
— Douglas MacArthur
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He who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the plants, the waters, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments -…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We must come to understand our past, our history, in terms of the soil and water and forests and grasses that have made it what…
— William Vogt
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My pre-occupation is with the relationship between objects, whether I am dealing with woods, fields or water, rocks or trees, shrubs and plants, or groups…
— Russell Page
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Our Children no longer learn how to read the great book of Nature from their own direct experience, or how to interact creatively with the…
— Wendell Berry
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Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a tool or they…
— Lewis H. Lapham
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Very few persons, comparatively, know how to Desire with sufficient intensity. They do not know what it is to feel and manifest that intense, eager,…
— Robert Collier
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A white crowned night sparrow sings as the moon sets. Thunder growls far off. Our campfire is a single light. Amongst a hundred peaks and…
— Kenneth Rexroth
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Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence - neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish - it is…
— Maya Angelou
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I was so surprised. Then again, I was so relaxed in the water, it felt amazing
— Unknown Author
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For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every…
— Ian Thorpe
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If you want to obtain the secrets of such wonderful techniques, drill yourself, harden yourself, undergo severe training, abandoned body and mind; follow this course…
— Yamaoka Tesshu
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Beer is an improvement on water itself.
— Unknown Author
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The oceans are the planet's last great living wilderness, man's only remaining frontier on earth, and perhaps his last chance to produce himself a rational…
— Unknown Author
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Inside I'm treading waters steady tryna swim ashore.
— Drake
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My story starts at sea, a perilous voyage to an unknown land. A shipwreck. The wild waters roar and heave. The brave vessel is dashed…
— William Shakespeare
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I love drinking now and then. It defecates the standing pool of thought. A man perpetually in the paroxysm and fears of inebriety is like…
— Robert Burns
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At that comfortable tavern on Pontchartrain we had a bouillabaisse than which a better was never eaten at Marseilles; and not the least headache in…
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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All the charming and beautiful things, from the Song of Songs, to bouillabaisse, and from the nine Beethoven symphonies to the Martini cocktail, have been…
— H. L. Mencken
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There is not a flower or bird in sight, only a small screen on which lines are moving, while the child sits almost motionless, pushing…
— Unknown Author
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Instead of water we got here a draught of beer, a lumberer's drink, which would acclimate and naturalize a man at once,-which would make him…
— Henry David Thoreau
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There are a lot of mountains with a lot of water.
— Shailene Woodley
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I wish we could all have good luck, all the time! I wish we had wings! I wish rain water was beer!
— Robert Bolt
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After hitting two balls into the water- By God, I've got a good mind to jump in and make it four.
— Simon Hobday
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Pebble is a piece of sacred ground. They say it's the greatest meeting of land and water in the world. This course was heaven designed…
— Johnny Miller
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