Linen often to water,
Soon to tatter. [ Proverb ]
Blood is thicker than water. [ Proverb ]
You pour water into a sieve. [ Proverb ]
Foul water will quench fire. [ Proverb ]
I will watch your water-gate. [ Proverb ]
Water, water, everywhere,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink. [ Coleridge ]
You do but water a dead stake. [ Proverb ]
Little moments make an hour.
Little thoughts a book,
Little seeds a tree or flower.
Water-drops a brook;
Little deeds of faith and love
Make a home for you above. [ Anonymous ]
Spilt wine is worse than water. [ Proverb ]
Ships fear fire more than water. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The scalded dog fears cold water. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Goslings lead the geese to water. [ Proverb ]
A scalded cat dreads cauld water. [ Scotch Proverb ]
Water trotted is as good as oats. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Scalded cats fear even cold water. [ Proverb ]
To throw cold water on a business.
A great ship must have deep water. [ Proverb ]
Water afar off quencheth not fire. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Pour not water on a drowning mouse. [ Proverb ]
No safe wading in an unknown water. [ Proverb ]
Muddy water is a bad looking-glass. [ Proverb ]
As welcome as water in one's shoes. [ Proverb ]
From a pure spring pure water flows. [ Proverb ]
Let none say I will not drink water. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The sea complains for want of water. [ Proverb ]
Where there are reeds there is water. [ Proverb ]
Good words cool more than cold water. [ Proverb ]
Many drops of water will sink a ship. [ Proverb ]
You look for hot water under the ice. [ Proverb ]
Water its living strength first shows.
When obstacles its course oppose. [ Goethe ]
As welcome as water in a leaking ship. [ Proverb ]
The ass that carries wine drinks water. [ Proverb ]
Under water, famine; under snow, bread. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Here quench your thirst, and mark in me
An emblem of true charity;
Who, while my bounty I bestow.
Am neither seen, nor heard to flow. [ Hone ]
Water afar won't quench a fire at hand. [ Italian Proverb ]
Praise a fool, and you water his folly. [ Proverb ]
Alas! our young affections run to waste,
Or water but the desert. [ Byron ]
Not all the water in the rough rude sea
Can wash the balm from an anointed king;
The breath of worldly men cannot depose
The deputy elected by the Lord. [ Rich. II ]
Where water is shallow no boat will ride. [ Proverb ]
Can a mill go with the water that's past? [ Proverb ]
The earth hath bubbles, as the water has.
And these are of them. [ William Shakespeare ]
A straight stick is crooked in the water. [ Proverb ]
The rising world of waters dark and deep. [ Milton ]
In the deepest water is the best fishing. [ Proverb ]
Every one draws the water to his own mill. [ French Proverb ]
Smooth runs the water where brook is deep. [ William Shakespeare ]
Stillest streams
Oft water greenest meadows; and the bird
That flutters least is longest on the wing. [ William Cowper ]
Traverse the desert, and then ye can tell
What treasures exist in the cold deep well,
Sink in despair on the red parch'd earth,
And then ye may reckon what water is worth. [ Miss Eliza Cook ]
They are not all saints that use holy water. [ Proverb ]
Water, fire, and soldiers quickly make room. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
As good water goes by the mill as drives it. [ Proverb ]
Every miller draws the water to his own mill. [ Proverb ]
The mill cannot grind with water that's past. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
By land or water the wind is ever in my face. [ Proverb ]
When the house is burnt down, you bring water. [ Proverb ]
Have a care of a silent dog and a still water. [ Proverb ]
Good words quench more than a bucket of water. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Other sins only speak, murder shrieks out.
The element of water moistens the earth,
But blood flies upwards and bedews the heavens. [ Webster ]
To go through fire and water to serve a friend. [ Proverb ]
To serve thy generation, this thy fate:
Written in- water, swiftly fades thy name;
But he who loves his kind does, first and late,
A work too great for fame. [ Mary Clemmer ]
Little drops of water, little grains of sand,
Make the mighty ocean and the pleasant land.
Thus the little minutes, humble though they be,
Make the mighty ages of eternity. [ F. S. Osgood ]
Honest water, which never left man in the mire. [ William Shakespeare ]
Till taught by pain,
Men really know not what good water's worth:
If you had been in Turkey or in Spain,
Or with a famish'd boat's crew had your berth,
Or in the desert heard the camel's bell,
You'd wish yourself where truth is - in a well. [ Byron ]
Glory is like a circle in the water,
Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself
Till, by broad spreading it disperse to nought. [ William Shakespeare ]
He does not deserve wine who drinks it as water. [ Bodenstedt ]
Mills will not grind if you give them not water. [ Proverb ]
It is a bad well into which you must pour water. [ German Proverb ]
Dogs once scalded are afraid even of cold water. [ Proverb ]
Her words but wind, and all her tears but water. [ Spenser ]
Grantham gruel, nine grats in a gallon of water. [ Proverb ]
Fire and water are good servants but bad masters. [ Proverb ]
A drop of water is as powerful as a thunder-bolt. [ Huxley ]
Friendship is a plant which one must water often. [ German Proverb ]
The mill cannot grind with the water that is past. [ Proverb ]
You carry fire in one hand and water in the other. [ Proverb ]
He is not so much worth as his ears full of water. [ Proverb ]
Don't cast out your foul water till you have clean. [ Proverb ]
All the water in the sea cannot wash out this stain. [ Proverb ]
Cast no dirt into the well that hath given you water. [ Proverb ]
Like fish, that live in salt water and yet are fresh. [ Proverb ]
He knows the water the best who has waded through it. [ Proverb ]
If the channel's too small, the water must break out. [ Proverb ]
Would you wipe with the water and wash with the towel? [ Proverb ]
If you increase the water, you must increase the malt. [ Proverb ]
Water breeds frogs in the belly; but wine kills worms. [ Proverb ]
The mill will never grind with the water that is past. [ Sarah Dowdney ]
It is a strange salt fish that no water can make fresh. [ Proverb ]
We never know the worth of water, till the well is dry. [ Proverb ]
Fire and water are not more necessary than friends are. [ Proverb ]
An idle man is like stagnant water: he corrupts himself. [ Latena ]
The tears live in an onion that should water this sorrow. [ Shakespeare ]
Fools lade out all the water, and wise men take the fish. [ Proverb ]
Now cold despair To livid paleness turns the glowing red;
His blood, scarce liquid, creeps within his veins,
Like water which the freezing wind constrains. [ Dryden ]
Where the stream runneth smoothest, the water is deepest. [ Lyly ]
All the wicked are water-drinkers; this the deluge proves.
Stones are hollowed out by the constant dropping of water. [ Ovid ]
A man may lead his horse to water but cannot make him drink. [ Proverb ]
Whether you boil or bake snow, you can have but water of it. [ Proverb ]
Through water and fire she goes plunging but is not submerged. [ M. of Paris ]
The repose of darkness is deeper on the water than on the land. [ Victor Hugo ]
He'll rather die with thirst than take the pains to draw water. [ Proverb ]
Whether you boil snow or pound it, you can have but water of it. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
He's so covetous, that he will not give even a cup of cold water. [ Proverb ]
Leave the spring for the stream, so you shall have mud for water. [ Proverb ]
As water spilt upon the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. [ Bible ]
To do good to the ungrateful, is to throw rose-water into the sea. [ Proverb ]
Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water. [ Shakespeare ]
Display is like shallow water, where you can see the muddy bottom. [ Alphonse Karr ]
We'll never know the worth of the water till the well has gone dry. [ Proverb ]
Freedom is the ferment of freedom.
The moistened sponge drinks up water greedily; the dry one sheds it. [ Holmes ]
The passions are like fire and water; good servants, but bad masters. [ Proverb ]
Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water. [ Auerbach ]
What a woman says to her lover should be written on air or swift water. [ Catullus ]
Life resembles a cup of clear water which becomes muddy as we drink it. [ Mme. Dufresnoy ]
God defend me from the still water, and I'll keep myself from the rough. [ Proverb ]
The water that comes from the same spring, cannot be fresh and salt both. [ Proverb ]
The earth hath bubbles, as the water has, and these are of them. (Trifles) [ William Shakespeare ]
Though your water be never so muddy, do not say, I will never drink of it. [ Proverb ]
A good deal of water passes by the mill which the miller takes no note of. [ Italian Proverb ]
River is time in water; as it came, still so it flows, yet never is the same. [ Barton Holyday ]
What woman says to her fond lover should be written in air or the swift water. [ Catullus ]
Life, like the water of the seas, freshens only when it ascends toward heaven. [ Richter ]
I have seen more than one woman drown her honor in the clear water of diamonds. [ D'Houdetot ]
A drop of water has all the properties of water, but it cannot exhibit a storm. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth. [ Bible ]
How many wells of science there are in whose depths there is nothing but clear water! [ J. Petit-Senn ]
The tear of joy is a pearl of the first water; the mourning tear, only of the second. [ Jean Paul ]
Truth will be uppermost one time or another like cork, though kept down in the water. [ Sir W. Temple ]
Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of water. [ Rivarol ]
The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water and yet thirsty. [ Rev. T. Adams ]
In water thou canst see thine own face, in wine thou canst see into the heart of another. [ Proverb ]
He that lets his fish escape into the water, may cast his net often yet never catch it again. [ Proverb ]
Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life. [ L. E. Landon ]
But her's, which through the crystal tears gave light. Shone like the moon in water seen by night. [ William Shakespeare ]
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water. [ Cervantes ]
Water is the mother of the vine. The nurse and fountain of fecundity. The adorner and refresher of the world. [ Chas. Mackay ]
A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds; therefore let him seasonably water the one, and destroy the other. [ Lord Bacon ]
Like the air, the water, and everything else in the world, the heart too rises the higher the warmer it becomes. [ Cötvös ]
Passions, as fire and water, are good servants, but bad roasters, and subminister to the best and worst purposes. [ L'Estrange ]
Who lets his wife go to every feast, and his horse drink at every water, shall neither have good wife nor good horse. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
It is scarce possible at once to admire and excel an author, as water rises no higher than the reservoir it falls from. [ Bacon ]
The history of persecution is a history of endeavor to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand. [ Emerson ]
Great warmth at first is the certain ruin of every great achievement. Doth not water, although ever so cool, moisten the earth? [ Hitopadesa ]
Like a great poet, Nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. There are simply a sun, flowers, water, and love. [ Heine ]
Two pots stood by a river, one of brass, the other of clay; the water carried them away; the earthen vessel kept aloof from the other. [ L'Estrange ]
In goodness, rich men should transcend the poor, as clouds the earth; raised by the comfort of the sun to water dry and barren grounds. [ Tourneur ]
Laughter and tears are meant to turn the wheels of the same machinery of sensibility; one is wind-power, and the other water-power, that is all. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]
Of all pure things, purity in the acquisition of riches is the best. He who preserves purity in becoming rich is really pure, not he who is purified by water. [ Manu ]
The lyric poet may drink wine and live generously, but the epic poet, who shall sing of the gods and their descent unto men, must drink water out of a wooden bowl. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
The early months of marriage often are times of critical tumult, - whether that of a shrimp pool or of deeper water, - which afterwards subside into cheerful peace. [ George Eliot ]
There are few husbands whom the wife cannot win in the long run by patience and love, unless they are harder than the rocks which the soft water penetrates in time. [ Marguerite de Valois ]
The flavor of detached thoughts depends upon the conciseness of their expression: for thoughts are grains of sugar, or of salt, that must be melted in a drop of water. [ J. Petit-Senn ]
Good counsel is like unto well-water, that must be drawn up with a pump or bucket; ill counsel is like to conduit-water, which if the cork be but turned runs out alone. [ Bishop Hall ]
Fame is not won on downy plumes nor under canopies; the man who consumes his days without obtaining it leaves such mark of himself on earth as smoke in air or foam on water. [ Dante ]
The fire of true enthusiasm is like the fires of Baku, which no water can ever quench, and which burn steadily on from night to day, and year to year, because their well-spring is eternal. [ Ouida ]
The air seems made up of happiness, the clouds, the trees, the grass, the pathless birds, land and water, - all seem to pulsate happiness, to emit it, to breathe it forth upon us; and it falls upon us as dew upon flowers. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
We really cannot see what equanimity there is in jerking a lacerated carp out of the water by the jaws, merely because it has not the power of making a noise; for we presume that the most philosophic of anglers would hardly delight in catching shrieking fish. [ Leigh Hunt ]
Be cheerful, and seek not external help, nor the tranquillity which others give. A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others. Be like the promontory against which the waves continually break, but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it. [ Marcus Aurelius ]
The common cause of waves is the friction of the wind upon the surface of the water; little ridges or elevations first appear, which by continuance of the force gradually increase until they become the rolling mountains seen where the wind sweeps over a great extent of water. [ F. Marryatt ]
There are persons of that general philanthropy and easy tempers, which the world in contempt generally calls good-natured, who seem to be sent into the world with the same design with which men put little fish into a pike pond, in order only to be devoured by that voracious water-hero. [ Fielding ]
Few have borrowed more freely than Gray and Milton; but with a princely prodigality, they have repaid the obscure thoughts of others, with far brighter of their own - like the ocean, which drinks up the muddy water of the rivers from the flood, but replenishes them with the clearest from the shower. [ Colton ]
From extensive acquaintance with many lands, I unhesitatingly affirm that everywhere God has provided pure water for man, and that the wines drunk are often miserable and dirty. I have found water everywhere that I have traveled, in China and India, Palestine and Egypt, - and everywhere water has been my beverage. [ Thomas Cook, the Tourist ]
Truth does not consist in minute accuracy of detail, but in conveying a right impression; and there are vague ways of speaking that are truer than strict facts would be. When the Psalmist said, "Rivers of water run down mine eyes, because men keep not thy law," he did not state the fact but he stated a truth deeper than fact and truer. [ Dean Alford ]
In former days various superstitious rites were used to exorcise evil spirits, but in our times the same object is attained, and beyond comparison more effectually, by the press; before this talisman, ghosts, vampires, witches, and all their kindred tribes are driven from the land, never to return again; the touch of holy water is not so intolerable to them as the smell of printing ink. [ J. Bentham ]
It is like the Greek fire used in ancient warfare, which burnt unquenched beneath the water; or like the weeds which, when you have extirpated them in one place, are sprouting forth vigorously in another spot, at the distance of many hundred yards; or, to use the metaphor of St. James, it is like the wheel which catches fire as it goes, and burns with fiercer conflagration as its own speed increases. [ F. W. Robertson ]
A clear running brook is the best teacher of style. There is a quick forward movement - but not measured or monotonous movement - while the water is so limpid that everything is seen through the crystal medium. It seems to me that the best style is that which reveals the writer's thoughts so easily, plainly, and musically that the reader becomes engrossed in the thought or story and forgets the writer. [ E P. Roe, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]
Business is religion, and religion is business. The man who does not make a business of his religion has a religious life of no force, and the man who does not make a religion of his business has a business life of no character.
The world is God's workshop; the raw materials are His; the ideals and patterns are His; our hands are "the members of Christ," our reward His recognition. Blacksmith or banker, draughtsman or doctor, painter or preacher, servant or statesman, must work as unto the Lord, not merely making a living, but devoting a life. This makes life sacramental, turning its water into wine. This is twice blessed, blessing both the worker and the work. [ Maltbie Babcock ]
How fitting to have every day, in a vase of water on your table, the wild flowers of the season which are just blossoming. Can any house be said to be furnished without them? Shall we be so forward to pluck the fruits of Nature and neglect her flowers? These are surely her finest influences. So may the season suggest the thoughts it is fitted to suggest. Let me know what pictures Nature is painting, what poetry she is writing, what ode composing now. [ Thoreau ]
Gentleness in the gait is what simplicity is in the dress. Violent gesture or quick movement inspires involuntary disrespect. One looks for a moment at a cascade; but one sits for hours, lost in thought, and gazing upon the still water of a lake. A deliberate gale, gentle manners, and a gracious tone of voice - all of which may be acquired - give a mediocre man an immense advantage over those vastly superior to him. To be bodily tranquil, to speak little, and to digest without effort are absolutely necessary to grandeur of mind or of presence, or to proper development of genius. [ Balzac ]
My friends, if you had but the power of looking into the future you might see that great things may come of little things. There is the great ocean, holding the navies of the world, which comes from little drops of water no larger than a woman's tears. There are the great constellations in the sky, made up of little bits of stars. Oh, if you could consider his future you might see that he might become the greatest poet of the universe, the greatest warrior the world has ever known, greater than Caesar, than Hannibal, than--er--er" (turning to the father) - What's his name?
The father hesitated, then whispered back: His name? Well, his name is Mary Ann.
[ Mark Twain, Educations and Citizenship ]