Spit not in the well; you may have to drink its water.
—French proverb
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No poems can please long, nor live, that are written by water drinkers.
—Horace, 35 BCToo often, where we need water we find guns.
—Ban Ki-moon, 2008The mill will never grind with water that is past.
—Daniel McCallum, 1870What water gives, water takes away.
—Portuguese proverbWater is the readiest means of making friends with nature.
—Ludwig Feuerbach, 1841To gaze upon a drop of water is to behold the nature of all the waters of the universe.
—Huangbo Xiyun, c. 850Best is water.
—Pindar, 476 BCI drink for the thirst to come.
—François Rabelais, 1535Can you draw sweet water from a foul well?
—Brooks Atkinson, 1940He who would have clear water should go to the fountainhead.
—Italian proverbThese landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
—Claude Monet, 1908Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
—W.H. Auden, 1957