Water Quotes

From time to time we publish our collection of Water Quotes. Sometimes they contain deep insight sometimes they are silly but they are always entertaining.

"Water is the only drink for a wise man."
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

"Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and God, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and revealed to him the art of making le vin. By the aid of this liquid he unveiled more and more truth."
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

"The best wine is the oldest, the best water the newest."
William Blake (1757-1827)

“Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babes, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts."
John Stuart Blackie (1809-1895)

“In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is strength, in water there is bacteria.”
David Auerbach (2002)

“A man who drinks only water has a secret to hide from his fellow men.”
Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), French poet

“I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming.”
W.C. Fields (1880-1946)

"No poems can live long or please that are written by water-drinkers."
Horace, Roman lyric poet (65 -8 B.C.)

If you aware of any Water Quotes please email michael@finewaters.com