"I tried water polo and my horse drowned... that was a nightmare."
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"I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads off and keep them in bowls of water around the house."
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"The best thing about living at the water's edge: You only have assholes on three sides of you, and if they come this way you can hear them splash."
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"To an old memory like mine the present days are but as a little water poured on the deep."
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"There's folks 'ud hold a sieve under the pump and expect to carry away the water."
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"The scarce water of Dune is an exact analog of oil scarcity. CHOAM is OPEC."
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"Ships feare fire more then water. [Ships fear fire more than water.]"
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"Vnder water, famine; under snow, bread."
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"Water, fire, and souldiers, quickly make roome. [Water, fire, and soldiers quickly make room.]"
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"Water trotted is as good as oates."
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"Water a farre off quencheth not fire."
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"Whether you boyle snow or pound it, you can have but water of it."
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"Who letts his wife goe to every feast, and his horse drinke at every water, shall neither have good wife nor good horse."
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"Through Yoga, anybody can attain; it's a God realisation; you just practise Yoga and if you really mean it, then you'll do it. There's Yogis that have done it to such a degree that they're God, they're like Christ and they can walk on the water and materialise bodies and they can do all those tricks."
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"Let none say, I will not drinke water."
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"The scalded head feares cold water."
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"Tess," I say. "I'm going to head down to the water.I'll be back in a minute." "You sure you can make it by yourself?" she asks. "I'll be fine." I smile. "If you see me floating unconscious out to sea,though-by all means,come and get me."
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"If I sang the way I talk it would sound like "Tommy Steele sings Muddy Waters!""
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"This is the bravo’s dance, the water dance, swift and sudden. All men are made of water, do you know this? When you pierce them, the water leaks out and they die."
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"All men thirst to confess their crimes more than tired beasts thirst for water; but they naturally object to confessing them while other people, who have also committed the same crimes, sit by and laugh at them."
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