Safe Drinking Water

Famous quotes containing the words safe, drinking and/or water:

“Dear, be the tree your sleep awaits;
Worms be your words, you not safe from ours.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)

“A little learning is a dang’rous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring:
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

“I will catch Christ with a greased worm,
And when the Prince of Darkness stalks
My bloodstream to its Stygian term . . .
On water the Man-Fisher walks.”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)