What water gives, water takes away.
—Portuguese proverbQuotes
If you can’t go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.
—Margaret Atwood, 2005Every fool becomes a philosopher after ten days of rain.
—Clover Adams, 1882No poems can please long, nor live, that are written by water drinkers.
—Horace, 35 BCI drink for the thirst to come.
—François Rabelais, 1535Every memory everyone has ever had will eventually be underwater.
—Anthony Doerr, 2006He who would have clear water should go to the fountainhead.
—Italian proverbThe United States has virtually set up an empire on impounded and redistributed water.
—Charles P. Berkey, 1946Can you draw sweet water from a foul well?
—Brooks Atkinson, 1940There’s folks ’ud hold a sieve under the pump and expect to carry away the water.
—George Eliot, 1859Water astonishing and difficult altogether makes a meadow and a stroke.
—Gertrude Stein, 1914Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
—W.H. Auden, 1957Water is the readiest means of making friends with nature.
—Ludwig Feuerbach, 1841