Quotes about Water
The wisdom or counsel of God is deep water and is often a mystery to the natural mind.
- John Bevere
He must desire life like water and yet drink death like wine.
- John Eldredge
As inscribed on John Keats' tombstone: This Grave contains all that was Mortal, of a YOUNG ENGLISH POET, Who on his Death Bed, in the Bitterness of his Heart, at the Malicious Power of his Enemies Desired these Words to be engraven on his Tomb Stone: Here lies One Whose Name was writ in Water. Feb 24 1821
- John Keats
Love in a hut, with water and a crust, Is—Love, forgive us!—cinders, ashes, dust. Love in a palace is perhaps at last More grievous torment than a hermit's fast.
- John Keats
Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassie, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of Lillies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair
- John Milton
The boat is safe, secure, and comfortable. On the other hand, the water is rough. The waves are high. The wind is strong. There's a storm out there. And if you get out of the boat—whatever your boat might happen to be—there's a good chance you might sink.
- John Ortberg
If men could fit water into their pockets, the ocean would be empty.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
As the hart desires the spring of living water, so my soul desires to leave the prison of this dark body and see You in truth.
- Catherine of Siena
Is not a patron one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?
- Samuel Johnson
Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.
- Confucius
The land, the earth God gave to man for his home ... should never be the possession of any man, corporation, (or) society ... any more than the air or water.
- Abraham Lincoln
I used to live on a houseboat near Hammersmith Bridge.
- Bill Bailey