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

—French proverb

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

—Horace, 35 BC

Too often, where we need water we find guns.

—Ban Ki-moon, 2008

The mill will never grind with water that is past.

—Daniel McCallum, 1870

What water gives, water takes away.

—Portuguese proverb

Water is the readiest means of making friends with nature.

—Ludwig Feuerbach, 1841

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

—Huangbo Xiyun, c. 850

Best is water.

—Pindar, 476 BC

I drink for the thirst to come.

—François Rabelais, 1535

Can you draw sweet water from a foul well?

—Brooks Atkinson, 1940

He who would have clear water should go to the fountainhead.

—Italian proverb

These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.

—Claude Monet, 1908

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

—W.H. Auden, 1957