Famous quotes containing the words water and/or rules:
“Aesop, that great man, saw his master making water as he walked. What! he said, Must we void ourselves as we run? Use our time as best we may, yet a great part of it will still be idly and ill spent.”
—Michel de Montaigne (15331592)
“When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc., stretching or contracting every speaker to certain rules of theirs ... I see that they forget that the first requisite and rule is that expression shall be vital and natural, as much as the voice of a brute or an interjection: first of all, mother tongue; and last of all, artificial or father tongue. Essentially your truest poetic sentence is as free and lawless as a lambs bleat.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)