Water Quotes

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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

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.

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.

Douglas is playing cuttlefish, a small species of fish that has no mode of defending itself when pursued except by throwing out a black fluid, which makes the water so dark the enemy cannot see it.

Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?

Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.

People's good deeds we write in water. The evil deeds are etched in brass.