Famous quotes containing the words water and/or consumption:
“The favor of a drop of water should be repaid as an overflowing spring.”
—Chinese proverb.
“The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.”
—Thorstein Veblen (1857–1929)