Water - Quotes and Proverbs

Quotes and proverbs about water.

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A coconut shell full of water is a sea to an ant.

A coconut shell full of water is an ocean to an ant.

Blood is thicker than water.

Family relationships are more important than relationships with others.

Coffee leads men to trifle away their time, scald their chops, and spend their money, all for a little base, black, thick, nasty, bitter, stinking nauseous puddle water.

(unknown author)

Every path has its puddle.

You will alway encounter some problems on your way.

Filthy water cannot be washed.

Fish, to taste right, must swim three times: in water, in butter and in wine.

Flowing water never goes bad; our door hubs never gather termites.

How we grow food has enormous effects on the environment - climate change as well as pollution of air, water, and soil.

Marion Nestle

I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man.

Henry David Thoreau

If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.

Loren Eiseley

In shallow waters, shrimps make fools of dragons.

In wine there is wisdom. In beer there is strength. In water there is bacteria.

It is raining cats and dogs.

It is raining extremely hard.

Kissing is like drinking salted water, you drink and your thirst increases.

Jan Harper

Like a fish out of water.

Not feeling at home where you are.

Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer.

Dave Barry

Now, more than ever, we need to connect the dots between climate, poverty, energy, food and water. These issues cannot be addressed in isolation.

Ban Ki-moon

Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.

Stewart Udall

Pollution from oil and gas development, toxic runoff, and miles and miles of plastic trash foul the waters and threaten marine life.

Frances Beinecke

Pure water is the world's first and foremost medicine.

Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.

Roger Miller

Still waters run deep.

A quiet person can have much knowledge or wisdom.

The bigger the river the bigger the fish.

The entire country is a kind of saturated sponge.

Mary Mapes Dodge

The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl.

Dave Barry

The Netherlands are wet, flat and full of stoned people.

John Entwistle

The sky was a midnight-blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water-lily, floating forward with an invisible current.

Willa Sibert Cather

The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.

Rabindranath Tagore

The world has changed. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost. For none now live who remember it.

J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: Movie: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

There are five elements: earth, air, fire, water and garlic.

Louis Diat

There are people that fish and those who just disturb the water.

There is no room for two dragons in one pond.

To carry water to the sea.

Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.

Jacques Cousteau

Water is a finite resource that is essential in the advancement of agriculture, and is vital to human life.

Jim Costa

Water is the driving force in nature.

Leonardo da Vinci

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

Thomas Fuller

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

Mother Teresa

When the water rises the fish eat the ants, when the water falls the ants eat the fish.

When you heat a kettle of cold water, there is no particular moment when the water ceases to be cold and becomes hot, therefore it is impossible to make a cup of tea.

Richard Dawkins
Source: The Ancestor's Tale