Quotations: Water, Alcohol and Alcoholism

"You can't trust water - even a straight stick turns crooked in it."

- W.C. Fields (American actor and comedian; b. 1880 - d. 1946)

Quotations: Water, Alcohol and Alcoholism

"I never drink water; that is the stuff that rusts pipes."

- W.C. Fields (American actor and comedian; b. 1880 - d. 1946)

Quotations: Water, Alcohol and Alcoholism

"I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming."

- W.C. Fields (American actor and comedian; b. 1880 - d. 1946)

Quotations: Water, Alcohol and Alcoholism

"Prohibition may be a disputed theory, but none can say that it doesn't hold water." - from Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor (1922)

- Thomas L. Masson (American author and editor; b. 1866 - d. 1934)

"I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea."
- from Don Quixote (1605). - Miguel de Cervantes (Spanish poet, novelist, and playwright; b. 1547 - d. 1616)

"She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again."
- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand (French statesman and diplomat, b. 1754 - d. 1838)

"You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on."
- Heraclitus, Greek philosopher, b. 540 B.C. - d. 480 B.C.)

"From snow, whether baked or boiled, you will get nothing but water."
- Spanish Proverb

"For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow."
- Antoine de Saint Exupery (French author and aviator, b. 1900 - d. 1944)

"The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by dispersing his effort over many chores, may fail to accomplish anything. Drops of water, by continually falling, hone their passage through the hardest of rocks but the hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar and leaves no trace behind."
- Augustine "Og" Mandino (Italian/American author, b. 1923 - d. 1996)

"I believe in getting into hot water. I think it keeps you clean."
- Gilbert K. Chesterton (English author, b. 1874 - d. 1936)

"Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level."
- A. Alvarez (English author, b. 1929)

"If a man is destined to drown, he will drown even in a spoonful of water."
- Yiddish Proverb

"Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep."
- William Shakespeare
(English author, poet, and and playwright; b. 1564 - d. 1616)
from King Henry VI, Part II.

“Water is life's mater and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.”
- Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi (Hungarian biochemist and Nobel Prize recipient, b. 1893 – d. 1986)

"Evil is like water: it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint."
- Samuel Butler (English novelist and critic, b. 1835 - d. 1902)

"Wealth is like sea-water: the more we drink, the thirstier we become - and the same is true of fame."
- Arthur Schopenhauer (German philosopher, b. 1788 - d. 1860)

"Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet."
- African Proverb

"He cannot find water in the sea."
- Spanish Proverb

"With true friends, even water drunk together is sweet enough."
- Chinese Proverb

"Whatever I am offered in devotion with a pure heart - a leaf, a flower, fruit, or water - I accept with joy."
- Bhagavad Gita (Sanskrit text, date unknown - likely between the 5th and 2nd centuries, B.C.)

"Enough shovels of earth - a mountain. Enough pails of water - a river."
- Chinese Proverb

"Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep."
- William Maxwell (Scottish nobleman, 5th Earl of Nithsdale; b. 1676 - d. 1744)

"He expects to find water at the first stroke of the spade."
- Spanish Proverb

"No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream."
- Martin Luther King, Jr. (American civil rights leader, b. 1929 - d. 1968)