Drink Water Quotes

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wise, Believe, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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• Water is the one substance from which the earth can conceal nothing; it sucks out its innermost secrets and brings them to our very lips.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Rain, Rivers, Water

  Jean Giraudoux (1974). “The Madwoman of Chaillot: Comedy in Two Acts”, p.15, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• I have never seen a river that I could not love. Moving water... has a fascinating vitality. It has power and grace and associations. It has a thousand colors and a thousand shapes, yet it follows laws so definite that the tiniest streamlet is an exact replica of a great river.

  Roderick Haig-Brown

  Rain, Moving, Memorable

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• 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

  Fun, Drinking, Book

  "Vegetable Magnetism" by Dave Barry, www.washingtonpost.com. March 17, 1991.

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• Globalization was supposed to break down barriers between continents and bring all peoples together. But what kind of globalization do we have with over one billion people on the planet not having safe water to drink?

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  People, Water, Together

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• I never used to drink water. I am drinking six liters of water every day now. That's the key.

  Warren Cuccurullo

  Drinking, Keys, Water

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• In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources has become the victim of his indifference.

  Rachel Carson

  Men, Dirty Water, Ice Water

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.39, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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  Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Friends

  "Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey". Documentary, Action, Biography, 2000.

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

  Thomas Fuller

  Ocean, Sea, Oil And Water

  "Gnomologia". Book by Thomas Fuller, 1732.

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• If you gave me several million years, there would be nothing that did not grow in beauty if it were surrounded by water.

  Jan Erik Vold

  Rain, Years, Rivers

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• Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Mother, Ice Water, Water Of Life

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• I fear the man who drinks water and so remembers this morning what the rest of us said last night

  Benjamin Franklin

  Morning, Beer, Night

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• A river is more than an amenity, it is a treasure.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Rivers, Water, Paddling

  "New Jersey v. New York, et al., 283 U.S. 336, 342". Judicial opinion, 1931.

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• Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Inspirational, Funny, Water

  "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" l. 119 (1798).

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• Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over.

  Mark Twain

  Drinking, Fighting, Water

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• Water, thou hast no taste, no color, no odor; canst not be defined, art relished while ever mysterious. Not necessary to life, but rather life itself, thou fillest us with a gratification that exceeds the delight of the senses.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Art, Rain, Color

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

  Loren Eiseley

  Garden, Rivers, Lakes

  The Immense Journey "The Flow of the River" (1957)

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• For many of us, water simply flows from a faucet, and we think little about it beyond this point of contact. We have lost a sense of respect for the wild river, for the complex workings of a wetland, for the intricate web of life that water supports.

  Sandra Postel

  Rain, Science, Thinking

  Sandra Postel (2014). “The Last Oasis: Facing Water Scarcity”, p.184, Routledge

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  Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

  W. H. Auden

  Love, Motivational, Strength

  W. H. Auden, Katherine Bucknell (2003). “Juvenilia: Poems, 1922-1928”, p.105, Princeton University Press

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• We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Rain, Cycle Of Life, Water Of Life

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• Children of a culture born in a water-rich environment, we have never really learned how important water is to us. We understand it, but we do not respect it.

  William Ashworth

  Children, Rain, Rivers

  William Ashworth (1982). “Nor any drop to drink”

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• I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.

  W. C. Fields

  Funny, Witty, Hunting

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• The health of our waters is the principle measure of how we live on the land.

  Luna Leopold

  Land, Water, Environmental

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• I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming.

  W. C. Fields

  Beer, Water, Alcohol

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• I never drink water; that is the stuff that rusts pipes.

  W. C. Fields

  Funny, Humor, Water

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