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

Can you draw sweet water from a foul well?

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

Water is the readiest means of making friends with nature.

Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water.

Water astonishing and difficult altogether makes a meadow and a stroke.

The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, / And drinks, and gapes for drink again.

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

If you can’t go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.

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

The mill will never grind with water that is past.

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

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