Seek not water, only show you are thirsty, / That water may spring up all around you.
—Rumi, c. 1260
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Best is water.
—Pindar, 476 BCEvery fool becomes a philosopher after ten days of rain.
—Clover Adams, 1882Too often, where we need water we find guns.
—Ban Ki-moon, 2008Iron may break gold, but water remains whole.
—Ge Hong, c. 300He knows the water best who has waded through it.
—Danish proverbThe United States has virtually set up an empire on impounded and redistributed water.
—Charles P. Berkey, 1946Every memory everyone has ever had will eventually be underwater.
—Anthony Doerr, 2006Spit not in the well; you may have to drink its water.
—French proverbTo gaze upon a drop of water is to behold the nature of all the waters of the universe.
—Huangbo Xiyun, c. 850No poems can please long, nor live, that are written by water drinkers.
—Horace, 35 BCA fool and water will go the way they are diverted.
—Ethiopian proverbIf you stain clear water with filth, you will never find a drink.
—Aeschylus, 458 BC