Too often, where we need water we find guns.
—Ban Ki-moon, 2008
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Water is the first principle of everything.
—Thales of Miletus, c. 600 BCEvery fool becomes a philosopher after ten days of rain.
—Clover Adams, 1882Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water.
—Zadie Smith, 2000No poems can please long, nor live, that are written by water drinkers.
—Horace, 35 BCBest is water.
—Pindar, 476 BCThe United States has virtually set up an empire on impounded and redistributed water.
—Charles P. Berkey, 1946A fool and water will go the way they are diverted.
—Ethiopian proverbWater is the readiest means of making friends with nature.
—Ludwig Feuerbach, 1841These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
—Claude Monet, 1908When you drink water, think of its source.
—Chinese proverbWhat water gives, water takes away.
—Portuguese proverbIf you can’t go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.
—Margaret Atwood, 2005