Seek not water, only show you are thirsty, / That water may spring up all around you.
—Rumi, c. 1260Quotes
Water its living strength first shows, / When obstacles its course oppose.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1815Every memory everyone has ever had will eventually be underwater.
—Anthony Doerr, 2006All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
—Toni Morrison, 1987When you drink water, think of its source.
—Chinese proverbIf you stain clear water with filth, you will never find a drink.
—Aeschylus, 458 BCEvery fool becomes a philosopher after ten days of rain.
—Clover Adams, 1882Spit not in the well; you may have to drink its water.
—French proverbWater is the first principle of everything.
—Thales of Miletus, c. 600 BCThere’s plenty of water in the universe without life, but nowhere is there life without water.
—Sylvia Alice Earle, 1995Best is water.
—Pindar, 476 BCWater has many ways of reminding us that when we are in it we are out of our element.
—Christopher Hitchens, 2008The waters are nature’s storehouse, in which she locks up her wonders.
—Izaak Walton, 1653