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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.
Eeyore, the old grey donkey, stood by the side of the stream and looked at himself in the water. "Pathetic," he said. "That's what it is. Pathetic."
Nothing is weaker than water, Yet for overcoming what is hard and strong, Nothing surpasses it.
What All The World Knows Water is the principle, or the element, of things. All things are water.
Water and oil, simply considered, are capable of giving some pleasure to the taste. Water, when simple, is insipid, inodorous, colorless, and smooth; it is found, when not cold, to be a great resolver of spasms, and lubricator of the fibres; this power it probably owes to its smoothness.
Water is the best of all things.
Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go.
The sound of water says what I think.
My mother once told me I was like water. Water can carve its way even through stone. And when trapped, water makes a new path.
Enough. Man is capable of reform once presented with the facts, and the fact is that bottling water and shipping it is a big waste of fuel, so stop already.
Bottled water costs about 2000 times more than tap water. Can you imagine paying 2000 times the price of anything else? How about a $ 10,000 sandwich?
The mystery of language was revealed to me. I knew then that 'W-A-T-E-R' meant the wonderful cool something that was flowing over my hand. That living word awakened my soul, gave it light, joy, set it free.
And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine, "I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine."
A river is more than an amenity, it is a treasure.
Globalization was supposed to break down barriers between continents and bring all peoples together. But what kind of globalization do we have with over one billion people on the planet not having safe water to drink?
It is a fascinating and provocative thought that a body of water deserves to be considered as an organism in its own right.
Rain is a blessing when it falls gently on parched fields, turning the earth green, causing the birds to sing.
In sweet water there is a pleasure ungrudged by anyone.
The noblest of the elements is water
Nothing on earth is so weak and yielding as water, but for breaking down the firm and strong it has no equal.
Don't you realize that the sea is the home of water? All water is off on a journey unless it's in the sea, and it's homesick, and bound to make its way home someday.
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