When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that has not been filtered through either the berry of a grape, or else a tub of malt. These are the most reliable filters yet invented.

— Butler, Samuel

A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control over the uncontrollable. A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye.

— Didion, Joan

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.

— Lao-Tzu

So let man consider of what he was created; he was created of gushing water issuing between the loins and the breast-bones.

— Qur'an