It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water.
Franklin P. Jones

A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
Michel de Montaigne

I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
Miguel De Cervantes

Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
Miguel de Cervantes

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.
Miguel de Cervantes

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
Miguel de Cervantes

The soldiers did go away and their towns were torn down; and in the Moon of Falling Leaves (November), they made a treaty with Red Cloud that said our country would be ours as long as grass should grow and water flow.
Black Elk

Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.
Ovid

If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.
Ross Perot

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.
W. Somerset Maugham

Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it's a subject below their social standing.
Robert Kiyosaki

The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.
Horace

No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.
Horace

No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.
Horace

You'll notice that Nancy Reagan never drinks water when Ronnie speaks.
Robin Williams

The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.
David Herbert Lawrence

It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.
Dan Quayle

For a short time we lived quietly. But this could not last. White men had found gold in the mountains around the land of winding water.
Chief Joseph

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
W. H. Auden

The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.
Marge Piercy