Ovid Quotes, Rivers Quotes, Water Quotes

Dripping water hollows out a stone

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A snake came to my water trough On a hot, hot day, and I in pajamas for the heat, To drink there.

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I don't drink water, haven't drank water in 40 years.

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His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.

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The seed of mystery lies in muddy water. How can I perceive this mystery? Water becomes clear through stillness. How can I become still? By flowing with the stream.

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With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of all these things.

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Tags : Confucius Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Water Quotes

Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen Of stagnant waters.

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Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Water Quotes , England Quotes

...every offensive lost its force as it proceeded. It was like throwing a bucket of water over the floor. It first rushed forward, then soaked forward, and finally stopped altogether until another bucket could be brought.

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You can't get wet from the word 'water.'

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When we cast our bread upon the waters we can presume that someone downstream whose face we will never know will benefit from our action, as we who are downstream from another will profit from the grantor's gift.

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Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Water Quotes , Benefits Quotes

He comes into the world God knows how, walks on the water, gets out of his grave and goes up off the Hill of Howth. What drivel is this?

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Tags : James Joyce Quotes , Water Quotes , Jesus Christ Quotes

Now when I had mastered the language of this water, and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great river as familiarly as I knew the letters of the alphabet, I had made a valuable acquisition. But I had lost something, too. I had lost something which could never be restored me while I lived. All the grace, the beauty, the poetry, had gone out of the majestic river!

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This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.

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A little water clears us of this deed.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Water Quotes , Lady Macbeth Quotes

To fish in troubled waters.

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Love's fire heats water, water cools not love.

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By constant dripping, water hollows stone, A signet-ring from use alone grows thin, And the curved plowshare by soft earth is worn.

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And in spite of everything, Ireland remains the brain of the Kingdom. The English, judiciously practical and ponderous, furnish the over-stuffed stomach of humanity with a perfect gadget--the water closet. The Irish, condemned to express themselves in a language not their own, have stamped on it the mark of their own genius and compete for glory with the civilized nations. This is then called English literature.

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But love is much like a dam; if you allow a tiny crack to form through which only a trickle of water can pass, that trickle will quickly bring down the whole structure and soon no one will be able to control the force of the current.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Love Quotes , Water Quotes

Water is a commodity not by any means to be found everywhere...When found, it is more than likely to be bad, being either from a bitter alkaline pool, or from a hole in a creek, so muddy that it can only be called liquid by courtesy.

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