It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose your own.
~Harry S. Truman

You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live.
~William Shakespeare

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?
~Gerald Barzan

The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right.
~Robert Farrar Capon

An “acceptable” level of unemployment means that the government economist to whom it is acceptable still has a job.
~Author Unknown

Hunger is not the worst feature of unemployment; idleness is.
~William E. Barrett

Unemployment diminishes people. Leisure enlarges them.
~Mason Cooley

When I quit working, I lost all sense of identity in about fifteen minutes.
~Paige Rense

You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live.
~William Shakespeare

Now joblessness isn’t just for philosophy majors.
~Kent Brockman

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.
~Cato the Elder

The hardest work in the world is being out of work.
~Whitney Young, Jr.

Unemployment is capitalism’s way of getting you to plant a garden.
~ Orson Scott

When large numbers of men are unable to find work unemployment results
~Calvin Coolidge

I’m very fond of water: It ever must delight Each mother’s son and daughter,– When qualified aright.
~Lord Charles Neaves

Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go.
~Blaise Pascal

Water is the mother of the vine, The nurse and fountain of fecundity, The adorner and refresher of the world.
~Charles Mackay

The miller sees not all the water that goes by his mill.
~Robert Burton

The people are like water and the ruler a boat. Water can support a boat or overturn it.
~William Shakespeare

Praise the sea; on shore remain.
~John Florio

‘Tis a little thing To give a cup of water; yet its draught Of cool refreshment, drain’d by fever’d lips, May give a shock of pleasure to the frame More exquisite than when nectarean juice Renews the life of joy in happiest hours.
~Sir Thomas Noon Talford

Still waters run no mills.
~Unknown Author

Water, water, everywhere,
And all the boards did shrink.
Water, water everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink.
~Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
~Joseph Conrad

Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.
~Henry Ward Beecher

Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.
~ African Proverb

As much use as a yard of pump water.
~Proverb

No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see.
~Taoist proverb

Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
~W.C. Fields

Ocean: A body of water occupying two-thirds of a world made for man – who has no gills.
~Ambrose Bierce

It is the calm and silent water that drowns a man.
~ Sayings from Ghanaian

It is wise to bring some water, when one goes out to look for water.
~Arab Proverb

I never drink water. I’m afraid it will become habit-forming.
~W.C. Fields

Filthy water cannot be washed.
~African Proverb

The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.
~Pamela Hansford Johnson

A man of wisdom delights in water.
~Confucius

The cure for anything is salt water – sweat, tears, or the sea.
~Isak Dinesen

Keep your head above water.
~Proverb

A river is more than an amenity, it is a treasure.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes

I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man.
~Henry David Thoreau

Fire, water and government know nothing of mercy.
~Unknown Author

The true peace of God begins at any spot a thousand miles from the nearest land. ~Joseph Conrad

A little water is a sea to an ant.
~Afghan Proverb

The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out.
~Annie Dillard

If water is too clear, it will not contain fish; people who are too cautious will never gain wisdom.
~Chinese proverb

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.
~Lucretius

The sewer is the conscience of the city.
~Victor Hugo, Les Miserables,

Water which is too pure has no fish.
~Unknown Author

A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable.
~William Wordsworth

Don’t empty the water jar until the rain falls.
~Philippine proverb

A flatterer has water in one hand and fire in the other.
~ German Proverb

Water is life’s mater and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.
~Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

A man who drinks only water has a secret to hide from his fellow men.
~Charles Baudelaire

A generous person will be enriched, and one who gives water will get water.
~Bible

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
~Thomas Fuller