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Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

—W.H. Auden, 1957

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

—Toni Morrison, 1987

Water astonishing and difficult altogether makes a meadow and a stroke.

—Gertrude Stein, 1914

Water is the readiest means of making friends with nature.

—Ludwig Feuerbach, 1841

Far water cannot quench near fire.

—Japanese proverb

It is wretched business to be digging a well just as you’re dying of thirst.

—Plautus, c. 193 BC

When you drink water, think of its source.

—Chinese proverb

He who would have clear water should go to the fountainhead.

—Italian proverb

A fool and water will go the way they are diverted.

—Ethiopian proverb

The smell of rain is rich with life.

—Estela Portillo Trambley, 1975

Every fool becomes a philosopher after ten days of rain.

—Clover Adams, 1882

Till taught by pain, / Men really know not what good water’s worth.

—Lord Byron, 1819

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

—Rumi, c. 1260