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

I just felt that if I went into Speed 2, I just... wouldn't have come up out of the water.
Keanu Reeves

Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.
Samuel Butler

The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet from outer space: a single entity in which air, water, and continents are interconnected. That is our home.
David Suzuki

The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.
Isak Dinesen

This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can't see how deep it is.
Dennis Rodman

Gold, on the contrary, though of little use compared with air or water, will exchange for a great quantity of other goods.
David Ricardo

I've been terrified of the water, and yet it seems I'm forced to go into in on every movie that I make.
Natalie Wood

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.
Doris Lessing

Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.
Edith Sitwell

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

I often go on a liquid fast a couple of days a week. I never take just water. Instead, I'll have maybe six glasses of vegetable and fruit juices a day.
Paul Lynde

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
John W. Gardner

Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?
Nicolas de Chamfort

You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.
Edwin Louis Cole

The story as told in The Odyssey doesn't hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.
Margaret Atwood

When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.
Gwendolyn Brooks