Water which is too pure has no fish
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.
Lao Tzu
Craftsmanship isnt like water in an earthen pot, to be taken out by the dipperful until its empty. No, the more drawn out the more remains.
Lloyd Chudley Alexander
We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.
Jacques Cousteau
Water is the best of all things.
PINDAR
The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.
William
I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.
W. C. Fields
Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender
Mary Buckley
Beware of silent dogs and still waters
Portuguese Proverb
Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet
African Proverb
Fermented beverages have been preferred over water throughout the ages: they are safer, provide psychotropic effects, and are more nutritious. Some have even said alcohol was the primary agent for the development of Western civilization, since more healthy individuals (even if inebriated much of the time) lived longer and had greater reproductive success.
Dr. Patrick McGovern