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Seek not water, only show you are thirsty, / That water may spring up all around you.

—Rumi, c. 1260

Water its living strength first shows, / When obstacles its course oppose.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1815

Every memory everyone has ever had will eventually be underwater.

—Anthony Doerr, 2006

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

—Toni Morrison, 1987

When you drink water, think of its source.

—Chinese proverb

If you stain clear water with filth, you will never find a drink.

—Aeschylus, 458 BC

Every fool becomes a philosopher after ten days of rain.

—Clover Adams, 1882

Spit not in the well; you may have to drink its water.

—French proverb

Water is the first principle of everything.

—Thales of Miletus, c. 600 BC

There’s plenty of water in the universe without life, but nowhere is there life without water.

—Sylvia Alice Earle, 1995

Best is water.

—Pindar, 476 BC

Water has many ways of reminding us that when we are in it we are out of our element.

—Christopher Hitchens, 2008

The waters are nature’s storehouse, in which she locks up her wonders.

—Izaak Walton, 1653