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Only two types of people don't ever wash-up: those who have no running water, and celebrities. (Quote by - Anonymous)

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. (Quote by - Lao Tzu)

I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean. (Quote by - Gilbert Keith Chesterton)

The lakes are something which you are unprepared for; they lie up so high, exposed to the light, and the forest is diminished to a fine fringe on their edges, with here and there a blue mountain, like amethyst jewels set around some jewel of the first water, - so anterior, so superior, to all the changes that are to take place on their shores, even now civil and refined, and fair as they can ever be. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)

Fire, water, and government know nothing of mercy. (Quote by - Albanian proverb)

Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters. (Quote by - Norman Augustine)

Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it's a subject below their social standing. (Quote by - Robert Kiyosaki)

It used to be that everything was wet, everything was with a brush. Everything was wiggle it in water, wipe out your brush, get a new jar of paint, spill the paint, mop it up. (Quote by - Don Bluth)

High quality water is more than the dream of the conservationists, more than a political slogan; high quality water, in the right quantity at the right place at the right time, is essential to health, recreation, and economic growth. (Quote by - Edmund S. Muskie)

When I first started writing, I was in advertising at the time, I was doing most of my writing on weekends. I had studied most of the other series heroes and I figured it would be fun for mine to be different and put him in and around water. (Quote by - Clive Cussler)

Into this pour the purified juice - and put it into a pan of water come almost to a boil and continue nearly in the state of boiling until the juice is found to be the consistency of a thick syrup when cold. (Quote by - James Lind)

Water is everywhere and in all living things; we cannot be seperated from water. No water, no life. Period. Water comes in many forms - liquid, vapor, ice, snow, fog, rain, hail. But no matter the form, i s still water. (Quote by - Robert Fulghum)

You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud. (Quote by - George MacDonald)

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. (Quote by - Lord Byron)

Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind. (Quote by - Leonardo Da Vinci)

Of a water that flows, With a lullaby sound, From a spring but a very few Feet under ground -- From a cavern not very far Down under ground. (Quote by - Edgar Allan Poe)

Don King is a man who wants to swallow mountains, walk on water and sleep on clouds. (Quote by - Mark Kram)

In every glass of water we drink, some of the water has already passed through fishes, trees, bacteria, worms in the soil, and many other organisms, including peopl Living systems cleanse water and make it fit, among other things, for human consumption. (Quote by - Elliot A. Norse)

If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water. (Quote by - Loran Eisely)

Where the streame runneth smoothest, the water is deepest (Quote by - John Lyly)

But what a woman says to her ardent lover should be written in wind and running water. (Quote by - Catullus)

Water is the mother of the vine, The nurse and fountain of fecundity, The adorner and refresher of the world. (Quote by - Charles Mackay)

The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea. (Quote by - Isak Dinesen)

Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)

You can never step into the same river, for new waters are always flowing on to you. (Quote by - Heraclitus)

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