When you drink water, think of its source.
—Chinese proverbQuotes
Every memory everyone has ever had will eventually be underwater.
—Anthony Doerr, 2006Every fool becomes a philosopher after ten days of rain.
—Clover Adams, 1882Water astonishing and difficult altogether makes a meadow and a stroke.
—Gertrude Stein, 1914It is wretched business to be digging a well just as you’re dying of thirst.
—Plautus, c. 193 BCWater its living strength first shows, / When obstacles its course oppose.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1815Spit not in the well; you may have to drink its water.
—French proverbThese landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
—Claude Monet, 1908He knows the water best who has waded through it.
—Danish proverbWater is the first principle of everything.
—Thales of Miletus, c. 600 BCIf you can’t go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.
—Margaret Atwood, 2005The mill will never grind with water that is past.
—Daniel McCallum, 1870Till taught by pain, / Men really know not what good water’s worth.
—Lord Byron, 1819