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"Silence is a beautiful fresh water tank to raise the trout of thought." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless--like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash Be water my friend." »Bruce Lee
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"water, water, everywhere,And all the boards did shrink.water, water everywhere,Nor any drop to drink." »Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"The tendency of man's nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downwards. There are none but have this tendency to good, just as all water flows downwards. Now by striking water and causing it to leap up, you may make it go." »Ni'matullah Wali
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"Anger is a rough water; if you can canalize it into a water mill, you can benefit from it. Anything bad can be transformed into good." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"You should respect each other and refrain from disputes you should not, like water and oil, repel each other, but should, like milk and water, mingle together." »Buddha
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"The best man is like water. Water is good it benefits all things and does not compete with them. It dwells in lowly places that all disdain. This is why it is so near to Tao." »Lao Tzu
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"The best [man] is like water.
Water is good; it benefits all things and does not compete with them.
It dwells in [lowly] places that all disdain.
This is why it is so near to Tao." »Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu
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"The highest goodness is like water. Water benefits all things and does not compete. It stays in the lowly places which others despise. Therefore it is near The Eternal." »Lao Tzu
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"The sun opens the lotuses, the moon illumines the beds of water-lilies, the cloud pours forth its water unasked: even so the liberal of their own accord are occupied in benefiting others." »Bhartrihari
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"No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see." »Taoist Proverb
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"The first drink with water, the second without water, the third like water." »Danish proverb
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"What is harder than rock, or softer than water Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere." »Ovid
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"I like less the story that a frog if put in cold water will not bestir itself if that water is heated up slowly and gradually and will in the end let itself be boiled alive, too comfortable with continuity to realize that continuous change at some point may become intolerable and demand a change in behavior." »Charles Handy - The Age of Unreason
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"What a man can do and suffer is unknown to himself till some occasion presents itself which draws out the hidden power. Just as one sees not in the water of an unruffled pond the fury and roar with which it can dash down a steep rock without injury to itself, or how high it is capable of rising; or as little as one can suspect the latent heat in ice-cold water." »Schopenhauer
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"He was as fresh as is the month of May." »Chaucer
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"You are looking as fresh as paint." »F. E. Smedley
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"Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed." »Buddha
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"Love and eggs are best when they are fresh." »Assyrian Proverb
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"Waste not fresh tears over old griefs." »Euripides
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"Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it." »Alice Walker
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"Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes." »Thomas W. Higginson
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"Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus." »Robert South
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"My friend I consider you my brother. I know we are not blood, and blood is thicker than water, but your body already has all the blood it needs. You will always need water." »Eric Pio
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"To be mature means to face, and not evade, every fresh crisis that comes." »Fritz Kunkel
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"We are all born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society." »Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)
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"We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society." »Judith Martin
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"Mars is essentially in the same orbit... Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe." »Dan Quayle
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"When I held you in my arms at your baptism, I wanted it to be a fresh start, for you to be more complete than we had ever been ourselves, but I wonder if we expected too much." »Richard Olton
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"You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients." »Julia Child
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