Our disputants put me in mind of the skuttle fish, that when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens all the water about him, till he becomes invisible.

-Addison,Joseph
  In The Spectator, no.476, 5 Sept.

Just when you thought it was safe to get back into the water.

-Anonymous
c.1978  Publicity slogan for Jaws 2.

Bill was a tropical fish. His native habitat was hot water.

-Anonymous
  Of  William  J Casey of the CI A and his role in the Iran arms sales. Quoted in the NewYork Times,19  Jul.

An old pond A frog jumps in The sound of water

-Basho, Matsuo
c.1689  Quoted in Hugh Cortazzi  The Japanese Achievement (1990).

All your better deeds Shall be in water writ, but this in marble.

-Beaumont, Francis and Fletcher,John
  Philaster (published1620), act 5.

   Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Genesis 49:4.

He asked for water, and she brought him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish. She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples. At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead. The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice,Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?

-Bible (Old Testament)
Judges 5:25^8.

   For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again: neither doth God respect any person.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Samuel14:14.

I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms 22:14.

Asthehart pantethafter thewaterbrooks, sopantethmy soul after thee,O God. My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms 42:1^2.

O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dryand thirsty land, where no water is.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms 63:1.

If thine enemy behungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink: For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the L shall reward thee.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDProverbs 25:21^2.

Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Isaiah12:3.

And a manshall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Isaiah 32:2.

Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with carefulness.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Ezekiel12:18.

And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting uponhim: And loavoicefromheaven, saying,This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew 3:16^17.

When therulerof the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and knew not whence it was: (but the servants which drew the water knew;) the governor of the feast called the bridegroom, And saith unto him, Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine; and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse: but thou hast kept the good wine until now.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St  John 2:9^10.

But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St  John19:34.

Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.

-Bible (NewTestament)
  Timothy 5:23.

I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Revelation 21:6.