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

Every memory everyone has ever had will eventually be underwater.

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

Iron may break gold, but water remains whole.

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

The history of the land has been written very largely in water.

Water is the readiest means of making friends with nature.

The mill will never grind with water that is past.

If you can’t go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.

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

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

The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, / And drinks, and gapes for drink again.

He knows the water best who has waded through it.