Famous quotes containing the words water and/or consumption:
“No speed of wind or water rushing by
But you have speed far greater.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“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)