Famous quotes containing the words drinking water, safe, drinking and/or water:
“When drinking water, don’t forget those who dug the well.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Stupid misery of fame and money. Always we were safe from it, mistaking our obscurity for a curse when it was a treasure. Free to make what we liked, to be ourselves, even do nothing at all. No one watching. We could be real.”
—Kate Millett (b. 1934)
“Wait a second while I take a swig off this bottle: it’s my true and only Helicon, my Caballine fount, my sole Enthusiasm. Here, drinking, I deliberate, I reason, I resolve and conclude. After the epilogue I laugh, I write, I compose, I drink. Ennius drinking would write, writing would drink.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)
“By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)