Water is the first principle of everything.

There’s plenty of water in the universe without life, but nowhere is there life without water.

Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water.

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

I ride rough waters and shall sink with no one to save me.

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

When you drink water, think of its source.

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

What water gives, water takes away.

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

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

Water has many ways of reminding us that when we are in it we are out of our element.

Can you draw sweet water from a foul well?