Drink Water Quotes

• 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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• In time and with water, everything changes.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Water, Things Change

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• Water is H2O, hydrogen two parts, oxygen one, but there is also a third thing, that makes it water and nobody knows what that is.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Science, Oxygen, Two

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6710, Delphi Classics

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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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  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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• 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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• 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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• Potable, n. Suitable for drinking. Water is said to be potable; indeed, some declare it our natural beverage, although even they find it palatable only when suffering from the recurrent disorder known as thirst, for which it is a medicine.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Drinking, Medicine, Water

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.185, University of Georgia Press

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

  W. C. Fields

  Funny, Humor, Water

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• Water is the most critical resource issue of our lifetime and our children's lifetime. The health of our waters is the principal measure of how we live on the land.

  Luna Leopold

  Nature, Children, Rivers

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

  Mark Twain

  Drinking, Fighting, Water

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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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• 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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• Solutions and technologies exist to provide clean, affordable drinking water anywhere in the world. These solutions will save lives, reduce financial burdens, foster peace, and relieve millions of people from worrying about their next drink of water.

  Jewel

  Drinking, Technology, Water

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• To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.

  Barry Lopez

  Nature, Hands, Rivers

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• Say anything that you like about me except that I drink water.

  W. C. Fields

  Water, Say Anything, Drink

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• Water, like religion and ideology, has the power to move millions of people. Since the very birth of human civilization, people have moved to settle close to it. People move when there is too little of it. People move when there is too much of it. People journey down it. People write, sing and dance about it. People fight over it. And all people, everywhere and every day, need it.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Moving, Writing, Fighting

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• And all the air is filled with pleasant noise of waters

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Air, Water, Noise

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• We think of our land and water and human resources not as static and sterile possessions but as life giving assets to be directed by wise provisions for future days.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Wise, Thinking, Land

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• Anyone who can solve the problems of water will be worthy of two Nobel prizes - one for peace and one for science.

  John F. Kennedy

  Two, Water, Problem

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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 - is the rich and royal man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sweet, Garden, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.154, Graphic Arts Books

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• Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called rain.

  Mike McAlary

  Rain, Power, Land

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