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The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea.
Remedies
Isak Dinesen

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The cure for anything is salt water -- sweat, teats, or the sea.
Remedies
Isak Dinesen

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The biggest waste of water in the country is when you spend half a pint and flush two gallons.
Waste
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

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Foul water will quench fire.
Necessity
English Proverb

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Still waters run deep.
Silence
English Proverb

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I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming.
Alcohol and Alcoholism
W. C. Fields

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I never drink water; that is the stuff that rusts pipes.
Alcohol and Alcoholism
W. C. Fields

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Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
Abstinence
W. C. Fields

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You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.
Alcohol and Alcoholism
W. C. Fields

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The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
Mind
Sigmund Freud

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Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.
Honesty
Billy Graham

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
Change
Heraclitus

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If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge
Critics and Criticism
Napoleon Hill

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The real antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.
Mediocrity
Eric Hoffer

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No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers.
Poetry and Poets
Horace

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No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.
Poetry and Poets
Horace

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Good bankers, like good tea, can only be appreciated when they are in hot water.
Bankers and Banking
Jaffar Hussein

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Public money is like holy water; everyone helps himself to it.
Welfare
Italian Proverb

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Getting money is like digging with a needle, spending it is like water soaking into sand.
Money
Japanese Proverb

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I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.
Depression
John Keats

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The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.
Perseverance
Lucretius

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You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water -- an inch deep and then the mud.
Amusement
George Macdonald

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Prohibition may be a disputed theory, but none can say that it doesn't hold water.
Alcohol and Alcoholism
Thomas L. Masson

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Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.
Happiness
William Maxwell

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Continental people have sex lives; the English have hot-water bottles.
Sex
George Mikes

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun