Water Quotes

High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.

Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection.

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.

There are three gems upon this earth; food, water, and pleasing words. Fools consider pieces of rocks as gems.

It is better to live under a tree in a jungle inhabited by tigers and elephants, to maintain oneself in such a place with ripe fruits and spring water, to lie down on grass and to wear the ragged barks of trees than to live amongst one's relations when reduced to poverty.

Swans live wherever there is water, and leave the place where water dries up; let not a man act so - and comes and goes as he pleases.

Water is the medicine for indigestion; it is invigorating when the food that is eaten is well digested; it is like nectar when drunk in the middle of a dinner; and it is like poison when taken at the end of a meal.

Accumulated wealth is saved by spending just as incoming fresh water is saved by letting out stagnant water.

There is no water like rainwater; no strength like one's own; no light like that of the eyes; and no wealth more dear than food grain.

Just as it is impossible to know when a swimming fish is drinking water, so it is impossible to find out when a government servant is stealing money.

As water collected in a tank gets pure by filtration, so accumulated wealth is preserved by being employed in charity.

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.

As a water bead on a lotus leaf, as water on a red lily, does not adhere, so the sage does not adhere to the seen, the heard or the sensed.

Just as a line drawn on water with a stick will quickly vanish and will not last long; even so is human life like a line drawn on water. It is short, limited, and brief; it is full of suffering, full of tribulation. This one should wisely understand, one should do good and live a pure life; for none who is born can escape death.

As a lotus flower is born in water, grows in water and rises out of water to stand above it unsoiled, so I, born in the world, raised in the world having overcome the world, live unsoiled by the world.

Learn this from water: loud splashes the brook but the oceans depth are calm.

Here are your waters and your watering place. Drink and be whole again beyond confusion.

The fish in the water is silent, the animals on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing. But man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air.

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.

The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.