The Moist Wet Territories

Floods and diseases and pestillentaries - Archie Bunker

Water is the only drink for a wise man. - Henry David Thoreau

The rain falls on the just and the unjust. - Hopi Proverb

Cursing the weather is never good farming. - English Proverb

Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth. - C S Lewis

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone. - Alan Watts

Sometimes I drink water just to surprise my liver. - WC Fields

An end is in sight to the severe weather shortage. - Ian Macaskill

He was so good he would pour rose water on a toad. - Douglas Jerrold

A meal without mushrooms is like a day without rain. - John Cage

You can't cross the sea merely by staring at the water. - Rabindranath Tagore

Rain is the one thing the British do better than anybody else. - Marilyn French

The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears or the sea. - Isak Dinesen

If his IQ slips any lower, we'll have to water him twice a day. - Molly Ivins

Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it. - Charles Dudley Warner

You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it. - WC Fields

Somewhere, behind space and time,
Is wetter water, slimier slime. - Rupert Brooke

My wife's an earth sign. I'm a water sign. Together we make mud. - Henny Youngman

An entire ocean can't sink a ship unless it allows the water inside. - Donna Smith

Gardening requires lots of water, most of it in the form of perspiration. - Lou Erickson

The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl. - Dave Barry

A woman is like a teabag. Only in hot water do you realize how strong she is. - Nancy Reagan

In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is freedom, in water there is bacteria. - Ben Franklin

I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge? - Douglas Adams

Don't be a fish; be a frog. Swim in the water and jump when you hit ground. - Kim Young-ha

You can lead a herring to water, but you have to walk really fast or he'll die. - Rose

It will never rain roses. When we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses. - George Eliot

Advice from your friends is like the weather, some of it is good, some of it is bad. - Unknown

Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on. - Louis L'Amour

Before enlightenment: chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment: chop wood, carry water. - Zen Buddhist Saying

When tempted to fight fire with fire, remember that the Fire Department usually uses water. - Unknown

Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops - let the rain sing you a lullaby. - Langston Hughes

If NASA really wants to find water on Mars, they should just send me there to hit a golf ball. - Gene Jaster

What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere. - Ovid

Like the old adverb, "you can lead a gift horse to the water but ya can't look in his mouth." - Archie Bunker

Milk is the drink of babies, tea the drink of women, water the drink of beasts, and wine is the drink of the gods. - John S Blackie

They invented the three-day bank holiday weekend because you can't lump all the bad weather into just Saturday and Sunday. - Unknown

Life is no different than the weather. Not only is it unpredictable, but it shows us a new perspective of the world every day. - Suzy Kassem

Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water. - WC Fields

Clay. It's rain, dead leaves, dust, all my dead ancestors. Stones that have been ground into sand. Mud. The whole cycle of life and death. - Martine Vermeulen