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

—Rumi, c. 1260

Best is water.

—Pindar, 476 BC

Every fool becomes a philosopher after ten days of rain.

—Clover Adams, 1882

Too often, where we need water we find guns.

—Ban Ki-moon, 2008

Iron may break gold, but water remains whole.

—Ge Hong, c. 300

He knows the water best who has waded through it.

—Danish proverb

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

—Charles P. Berkey, 1946

Every memory everyone has ever had will eventually be underwater.

—Anthony Doerr, 2006

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

—French proverb

To gaze upon a drop of water is to behold the nature of all the waters of the universe.

—Huangbo Xiyun, c. 850

No poems can please long, nor live, that are written by water drinkers.

—Horace, 35 BC

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

—Ethiopian proverb

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

—Aeschylus, 458 BC