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When you drink water, think of its source.

—Chinese proverb

Every memory everyone has ever had will eventually be underwater.

—Anthony Doerr, 2006

Every fool becomes a philosopher after ten days of rain.

—Clover Adams, 1882

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

—Gertrude Stein, 1914

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

—Plautus, c. 193 BC

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

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1815

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

—French proverb

These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.

—Claude Monet, 1908

He knows the water best who has waded through it.

—Danish proverb

Water is the first principle of everything.

—Thales of Miletus, c. 600 BC

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

—Margaret Atwood, 2005

The mill will never grind with water that is past.

—Daniel McCallum, 1870

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

—Lord Byron, 1819