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"Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot." »George Herbert
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"Lust is the craving for salt of a person who is dying of thirst." »Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking, 1973
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"He who neglects to drink from the spring of experience is likely to die of thirst in the desert of ignorance." »Ling Po, (Chinese, 701-762)
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"If we deny the thirst of love, we stand to lose the last known address of the stranger whithin us." »Sorin Cerin
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"Through avarice a man loses his understanding, and by his thirst for wealth he gives pain to the inhabitants of both worlds." »The Hitopadesa
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"A hundred long leagues is no distance for him who would quench the thirst of covetousness; but a contented mind has no solicitude for grasping wealth." »The Hitopadesa
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"Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine." »Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
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"The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Peace for any prolonged period of time is impossible. Humans have a natural thirst for chaos and war is the most readily available form of chaos." »Frank Herbert, Dune
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"For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?
Verily, when good is hungry is seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters." »Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
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