George Herbert Water Quotations

Take heede of still waters, the quick passe away.

Good words quench more then a bucket of water.

A great ship asks deep water.

Let none say, I will not drinke water.

Ships feare fire more then water. [Ships fear fire more than water.]

The scalded head feares cold water.

Vnder water, famine; under snow, bread.

Water a farre off quencheth not fire.

Water trotted is as good as oates.

Water, fire, and souldiers, quickly make roome. [Water, fire, and soldiers quickly make room.]

Whether you boyle snow or pound it, you can have but water of it.

Who letts his wife goe to every feast, and his horse drinke at every water, shall neither have good wife nor good horse.