„Water, Loo! water, Loo! fetch me some water!
There isn't a drop for a mile and a quarter!
The ground is so hard and the ground is so dry
I'm frightened my little red rose-bush will die.“

„For water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.“

—  Plutarch, книга Moralia

Moralia, Of the Training of Children

„Thare iz a grate deal ov charity in this world so koldly rendered that it fairly hurts, it iz like lifting a drowning man out ov the water bi the hair ov the hed, and then letting him drop on the ground.“

—  Josh Billings American humorist 1818 - 1885

„Water, water, everywhere,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink.“

—  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, книга The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Источник: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

„He was so good he would pour rose-water on a toad.“

—  Douglas William Jerrold English dramatist and writer 1803 - 1857

A charitable Man, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

„Such fire was not by water to be drowned,
Nor he his nature changed by changing ground.“

—  Ludovico Ariosto, книга Orlando Furioso

Né spegner può, per starne l'acqua, il fuoco,
Né può stato mutar, per mutar loco.
Canto XXVIII, stanza 89 (tr. W. S. Rose)
Orlando Furioso (1532)

„The sharpest peaks of the Ridge are the cluster of islets known as the Rocks of St. Paul, near the equator. The entire cluster of half a dozen islets is not more than a quarter of a mile across, and their rocky slopes drop off at so sheer an angle that water more than half a mile deep lies only a few feet off shore.“

—  Rachel Carson, книга The Sea Around Us

Chapter 5, Page 90 https://books.google.com/books?id=PvkDFTtW6f4C&&pg=PA90
The Sea Around Us (1951)

„The body is so easily damaged, so easily disposed of, water and chemicals is all it is, hardly more to it than a jellyfish, drying on sand.“

—  Margaret Atwood, книга The Handmaid's Tale

Источник: The Handmaid's Tale

„What has to die will die, and what has to remain will remain. Supposing you dig a well and the water dries up. Just because the well went dry, you cannot say that there is no water there. You cannot say that the spring is dead, for if you dig down one more foot, water will again spring up. If people will only dig a little deeper, they will find the water there. Of course, they can say, “There is no water in the well any more,” and go away. But those who have real thirst will dig a little deeper, and they will find water there. What is will always be. That which dies is dead and gone, but that which is will always be.“

—  Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Sri Lankan Sufi leader 1900 - 1986

„Rose water and raw spirit…weird amalgam of the bearded star gazer and the red haired pianist pounding away at her keyboard.“

—  Amrita Sher-Gil Hungarian Indian artist 1913 - 1941

Malcolm Muggeridge who had an serious affair with her in The Triumph of Modernism: India's Artists and the Avant-garde, 1922-1947, page=46

„I am standing up at the water's edge in my dream
I cannot make a single sound as you scream.
It can't be that cold, the ground is still warm to touch.
This place is so quiet, sensing that storm.“

—  Peter Gabriel English singer-songwriter, record producer and humanitarian 1950

Red Rain
Song lyrics, So (1986)

„Trusting someone was like holding a little water in your cupped hands - it was so easy to spill the water, and you could never get it back.“

—  Ken Follett British novelist 1949

„A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.“

—  Joseph Stalin General secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union 1879 - 1953

Speech "The Elections in St. Petersburg" (January 1913) http://marx2mao.com/Stalin/ESP13.html

„Drops of water hollow out a stone.“

—  Ovid, книга Epistulae ex Ponto

IV, x, 5; Arthur Leslie Wheeler translation
Epistulae ex Ponto (Letters From the Black Sea)
Добавить примечание: (la) Gutta cavat lapidem

„Oft, on a plat of rising ground,
I hear the far-off curfew sound
Over some wide-watered shore,
Swinging low with sullen roar.“

—  John Milton English epic poet 1608 - 1674

Источник: Il Penseroso (1631), Line 73

„The wave does not need to die to become water. She is already water.“

—  Thich Nhat Hanh Religious leader and peace activist 1926

Источник: The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation

„[to] think, in a certain way, of the power and severity of Romanesque paintings... Go to the beach and make graphic signs in the sand, draw by pissing on the dry ground, design in space by recording the songs of the birds, the sounds of water and wind.... and the chant of insects.“

—  Joan Miró Catalan painter, sculptor, and ceramicist 1893 - 1983

'Working notes of Miro, 1940 – 1941'; as quoted in: Calder Miró, ed. Elizabeth Hutton Turner / Oliver Wick; Philip Wilson Publishers, London 2004, p. 69
1940 - 1960

„so much depends
upon a red wheel
barrow glazed with rain
water beside the white
chickens“

—  William Carlos Williams, книга Spring and All

"The Red Wheelbarrow"
Источник: Spring and All (1923)

„London water – it’s hard but fair.“

—  Linda Smith comedian 1958 - 2006

A Brief History of Timewasting, Room 101, The News Quiz

„Far out in the ocean, where the water is as blue as the prettiest cornflower, and as clear as crystal, it is very, very deep; so deep, indeed, that no cable could fathom it: many church steeples, piled one upon another, would not reach from the ground beneath to the surface of the water above. There dwell the Sea King and his subjects.“

—  Hans Christian Andersen, книга The Little Mermaid

The Little Mermaid
Fairy Tales (1835)