Potable Water

Famous quotes containing the words potable and/or water:

    Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all the panaceas, potable gold, and philosophers’ stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases ... but as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, ‘tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health; hellish, devilish and damned tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul.
    Robert Burton (1577–1640)

    I pray thee, cease thy counsel,
    Which falls into mine ears as profitless
    As water in a sieve.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)