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Fishes and tales And a fisherman's daughter Walks in the rain, She walks to the water To the sea. — Daniel Lanois

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. — Chanakya

I do fish, and as a matter of fact, I used to do a lot of deep sea fishing, but as far as going into the water, I don't go out deep into the water. — Ving Rhames

Naturally men are drowned in a storm, but it is a perfectly straightforward affair, and the depths of the sea are only water after all. — Virginia Woolf

There twice a day the Severn fills; The salt sea-water passes by, And hushes half the babbling Wye, And makes a silence in the hills. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

Can the water in the valleys ever stop and rest?
When the water finally reaches the sea, it becomes great waves. — Francis Harold Cook

Great sea captains are made in rough waters and deep seas. — Kathryn Kuhlman

And one rose in a tent of sea and gave
A darkening shudder; water fell away;
The whale stood shining, and then sank in spray. — Yvor Winters

My brother William is a fisherman, and he tells me that when he is in the middle of a fogbound
sea the water is a color for which there is no name. — Patricia MacLachlan

The colors that show best by candlelight are white, carnation, and a kind of sea-water green. — Francis Bacon

Every grain of sand or silt carried out by the rivers and deposited at sea displaces a corresponding amount of water. — Rachel Carson

Finally he hears something: he thinks it is the ebb and flow of the sea, the water crashing back into the abyss of salt. — Marguerite Duras

If the earth should cease to attract its waters to itself all the waters of the sea would be raised and would flow to the body of the moon. — Johannes Kepler

Riches, one may say, are like sea-water; the more you drink the thirstier you become; and the same is true of fame. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Their coupling was the coupling of the sea and the sky, of the rain and the parched earth. Of night and day, wind and water. — Anita Diamant

Culture is like water in the sea; it can either keep the business ship afloat or drag it down and sink it. — Pearl Zhu

Of the four elements water is the second in weight and the second in respect of mobility. It is never at rest until it unites with the sea ... — Leonardo Da Vinci

My thoughts, my dreams, they had been nothing in comparison. They were a single drop of water, and this, the whole sea. — J.M. Miller

I was like a packet of powdered Sea Monkeys and they were like water. — Augusten Burroughs

To slip beneath the surface and soar along the silent bottom of the sea agile and shining in water honeycombed with light. — Ellen Meloy

Black are the brooding clouds and troubled the deep waters, when the Sea of Thought, first heaving from a calm, gives up its Dead — Charles Dickens

I walked to the lake and sat on the shore for a few minutes, just staring at the moonlight on the water. Moonlight never gets old. — Bill Barich

They are treading water in a sea of retarded sexuality and bad poetry. — Karl French

Out here on the water, it's a fine line between feeling in control and losing it altogether. — Laurie Nadel

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame. — Arthur Schopenhauer

There's magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea. — Herman Melville

She is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold. — William Shakespeare

By the shore of Gitche Gumee, By the shining Big-Sea-Water, At the doorway of his wigwam, In the pleasant Summer morning, Hiawatha stood and waited. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Is it possible to take river water back after it has mixed into the sea? The river and the sea are united and one now. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The shore is an ancient world, for as long as there has been an earth and sea there has been this place of the meeting of land and water. — Rachel Carson

Water adopts the shape of its receptacle, it is sometimes a trickle and sometimes a wild sea. — Miyamoto Musashi

The sea of pleasures may drown its owner and the swimmer fears to open his eyes under the water. — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

The Bane
... where coxswain's dirt
and seaman's shirts
brushed bawdily upon her chest ... — Muse

Life originated in the sea, and about eighty percent of it is still there. — Isaac Asimov

And slowly, infinitely slowly, he began to trust. Not the sea, from from it; no one should make that mistake! — Nina George

Trying to fulfill earthly desires was like carrying water to the sea; a never- ending task, and an ultimately useless one. — Douglas Preston

Margaux was older and wiser now and knew the waves couldn't fix what was wrong in her life, but at least they might give her some temporary respite. — Shelley Noble

Percy was getting tired of water.
If he said that aloud, he would probably get kicked out of Poseidon's Junior Sea Scouts, but he didn't care. — Rick Riordan

I could still see the smoke stack. That's where the water would be, healing out to the sea and the peaceful grottoes. — William Faulkner

Tidal waves surge forward,
And in their wake, Stale water is replenished.
(Haiku from Chapter Thirty, SHADOWWATER) — Wendy Shreve

Downtown is before them, as high and bright as the aurora borealis rising from the black water of the Bering Sea. — Neal Stephenson