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

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

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

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

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

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

Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.
Napoleon Bonaparte

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

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

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
Sigmund Freud

Water is the driving force of all nature.
Leonardo da Vinci

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
Leonardo da Vinci

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.
Leonardo da Vinci

The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money.
Plautus

A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.
Joseph Stalin

Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.
William Osler

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
John Muir

One may as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man.
John Muir

The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears.
Wilson Mizner

The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
William Blake