Water Quotes

My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.
Mitch Hedberg

Fake, Died, Pretend

A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Strong, Woman, Put

Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!
Eleanor Roosevelt

Women, Strength, True

I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.
Ray Charles

Music, Food, Heart

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
Mark Twain

Great, Wine, Everybody

Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.
Muhammad Ali

Different, Religions, Names

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.
Mark Twain

Hurt, Cannot, Anybody

There are only three things women need in life: food, water, and compliments.
Chris Rock

Life, Women, Food

I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.
Maya Angelou

Person, Him, Give

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.
Lao Tzu

Strong, Nothing, Hard

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
Lao Tzu

Peace, Give, Others

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.
Nelson Mandela

Work, Bread, Salt

I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.
W. C. Fields

Fish, Drink, Disgusting

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
Lao Tzu

Nothing, Flexible, Resist

Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.
Groucho Marx

Art, Tell, Hand

Friendship and money: oil and water.
Mario Puzo

Friendship, Money, Oil

You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.
W. C. Fields

Trust, Straight, Stick

I drank some boiling water because I wanted to whistle.
Mitch Hedberg

Wanted, Whistle, Boiling

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.
Khalil Gibran

Spring, Avoid, Drinking

My friends and family are my support system. They tell me what I need to hear, not what I want to hear and they are there for me in the good and bad times. Without them I have no idea where I would be and I know that their love for me is what's keeping my head above the water.
Kelly Clarkson

Love, Family, Good

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.
Nelson Mandela

Off, Turn, Foolish

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
Henry David Thoreau

Time, Working, Liberal

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
Alan Watts

Faith, Trust, Yourself

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.
Chanakya

Wise, Give, Others

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
Carl Reiner

Snow, Find, Freezing

When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he's doing nothing but the dog is barking, call 911.
Erma Bombeck

Nothing, Child, Dog

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.
Napoleon Hill

Another, Speak, Write

Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
W. C. Fields

Food, Live, Nothing

I'll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it's sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.
Kobe Bryant

Win, Whatever, Whether

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.
Ernest Hemingway

Writing, May, Enough

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