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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

—Toni Morrison, 1987

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

—Horace, 35 BC

Every memory everyone has ever had will eventually be underwater.

—Anthony Doerr, 2006

It is wretched business to be digging a well just as you’re dying of thirst.

—Plautus, c. 193 BC

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

—Zadie Smith, 2000

Till taught by pain, / Men really know not what good water’s worth.

—Lord Byron, 1819

I ride rough waters and shall sink with no one to save me.

—Virginia Woolf, 1931

The smell of rain is rich with life.

—Estela Portillo Trambley, 1975

Every fool becomes a philosopher after ten days of rain.

—Clover Adams, 1882

Water is the first principle of everything.

—Thales of Miletus, c. 600 BC

I came upon no wine, / So wonderful as thirst.

—Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1923

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

—Aeschylus, 458 BC

Best is water.

—Pindar, 476 BC