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A fool and water will go the way they are diverted.

—Ethiopian proverb

Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain there would be no life.

—John Updike, 1989

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

—Christopher Hitchens, 2008

Can you draw sweet water from a foul well?

—Brooks Atkinson, 1940

Too often, where we need water we find guns.

—Ban Ki-moon, 2008

The waters are nature’s storehouse, in which she locks up her wonders.

—Izaak Walton, 1653

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

—French proverb

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

—Plautus, c. 193 BC

Iron may break gold, but water remains whole.

—Ge Hong, c. 300

The United States has virtually set up an empire on impounded and redistributed water.

—Charles P. Berkey, 1946

The smell of rain is rich with life.

—Estela Portillo Trambley, 1975

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

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1815

Far water cannot quench near fire.

—Japanese proverb