I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they've gone through and through me, like winethrough water, and altered the colour of my mind.

-Bronte«  , EmilyJane
  Wuthering Heights, ch.9.

   The benison of hot water; furs to touch; The good smell of old clothes.

-Brooke, Rupert Chawner
  'The Great Lover'.

But somewhere, beyond Space and Time Is wetter water, slimier slime!

-Brooke, Rupert Chawner
  'Heaven'.

There is no hope of bailing out of a speedboat.You hit the water and become so much pulp.

-Campbell, Donald Malcolm
Quoted in DouglasYoung- James Donald Campbell:  An Informal Biography (1968).

His blade struck the watera full second before any other†until, as the boats began to near the winning post his ownwas dipping inthe water twiceas fast as anyother.

-Coke, F T Desmond
  Sandford of Merton, ch.12. Often misquoted as'All rowed fast but none so fast as stroke'.

Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink. The very deep did rot: O Christ! That ever this should be! Yes, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea.

-Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
  'The Rime of the  Ancient Mariner', pt.2.

Then the wet, winding roads, Brown bogs with black water; And my thoughts on white ships And the King o' Spain's daughter.

-Colum, Padraic
  'A Drover'.

   A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls

-Korzeniowski

Nympha pudica Deum vidit, et erubuit. The conscious water saw its God, and blushed.

-Crashaw, Richard
  Of the water which  Jesus turned into wine at Cana. Epigrammata Sacra,'Aquae in Vinum Versae' (translated by Dryden).

   why talk of beauty what could be more beaut- iful than these heroic happy dead who rushed like lions to the roaring slaughter they did not stop to think they died instead then shall the voices of liberty be mute? He spoke. And drank rapidly a glass of water.

-cummings, e e pen name of  Edward Estlin Cummings
  is 5,'Two, III'.

'The name of those fabulous animals (pagan, I regret to say) who used to sing in the water, has quite escaped me.'Mr George Chuzzlewit suggested 'Swans'.'No,'said Mr Pecksniff.'Not swans.Very like swans, too. Thank you.' The nephew†propounded 'Oysters'.'No,'said Mr Picksniff†'nor oysters.But by no means unlike oysters† Wait! Sirens. Dear me! sirens, of course.'

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
^4  Martin Chuzzlewit, ch.4.

If it was ever intended that I should go across salt water, doyou suppose Providence would have cast my lot inan island?

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
  Miss Pross.  A  Tale of  Two Cities, bk.1, ch.4.

I will not look upon the quickening sun, But straight her beauty to my sense shall run; The air shall note her soft, the fire most pure; Water suggest her clear, and the earth sure; Time shall not lose our passages.

-Donne,John
c.1595  Elegies, no.12,'His Parting from Her'.

Riveris ran reid on spate with water broun, And burnis hurlis all their bankis doun.

-Douglas, Gavin
c.1513  Eneados, bk.7, prologue.

It is the drawback of all sea-side places that half the landscape is unavailable for purposes of human locomotion, being covered by useless water.

-Douglas, (George) Norman
Alone,'Mentone'.

There's Carol like a rolling car, And Martin like a flying bird, And Adam like the Lord's First Word, And Raymond like the Harvest Moon, And Peter like a piper's tune, And Alan like the flowing on Of water. And there's John, like John.

-Farjeon, Eleanor
  Then There Were Three,'Boys' Names'.

   The land may vary more; But wherever the truth may beö The water comes ashore, And the people look at the sea.

-Frost, Robert Lee
  'Neither Far Out Nor in Deep'.

In the later nineteenth century, the tops of skyscrapers often took the shape of domes, surmounted by jaunty gilded lanterns; later came ziggurats, mausoleums, Alexandrian lighthouses, miniature Parthenons. These charming follies contained neither royal corpses nor effigies of gods and goddesses; rather they contained large wooden tanks filled with water.

-Gill, Brendan
  Quoted in Laura Rosen Top of the City: NewYork's hidden rooftop world (1990), foreword.

Yo no digo por eso que el te¤   no sea saludable†cuando duelen las tripas†pero al cabo no pasa de ser agua caliente; so¤  lo pod|¤a habernos venido de Inglaterra, que como all |¤ son herejes, ni tendra¤  n vino, ni bueyes cebones. I'm not saying that tea is not healthy†when you have a stomach ache†but, all in all, it is only hot water; it could only come from the English, who, being heretics as they are, probably have no wine or good beer.

-Gorostiza, Manuel Eduardo de
  Contigo pan y cebolla, act1.

   In all the events of life, we ought still to preserve our scepticism. If we believe that fire warms, or water refreshes, it is only because it costs us too much pains to think otherwise.

-Hume, David
  A  Treatise of Human Nature, bk.1, pt.4, section 7.