“From the water-fall he named her,
Minnehaha, Laughing Water.”

“That water which falls from some Alpine height is dashed, broken, and will murmur loudly, but grows limpid by its fall.”

Pietro Metastasio (1698–1782) Italian poet and librettist (born 3 January 1698, died 12 April 1782)

“In many cases one and the same thing is attracted by two strong forces, namely Necessity and Potency. Water falls in rain; the earth absorbs it from the necessity for moisture; and the sun evaporates it, not from necessity, but by its power.”

Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath

“The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.”

Lucretius (-94–-55 BC) Roman poet and philosopher

“Like ice beneath the sun's rays — to such poverty did he fall…his fortune melted to water.”

Ihara Saikaku (1642–1693) Japanese writer

“Charlie asks her for a Perrier with lime. She says that San Pellegrino is what they have. He says it's all the same to him. Fancy water is fancy water.”

John Updike book Rabbit at Rest

“Even as the light that shifts and plays upon a lake, when Cynthia looks forth from heaven or the bright wheel of Phoebus in mid course passes by, so doth he shed a gleam upon the waters; he heeds not the shadow of the Nymph or her hair or the sound of her as she rises to embrace him. Greedily casting her arms about him, as he calls, alack! too late for help and utters the name of his mighty friend, she draws him down; for her strength is aided by his falling weight.”
Stagna vaga sic luce micant ubi Cynthia caelo prospicit aut medii transit rota candida Phoebi, tale iubar diffundit aquis: nil umbra comaeque turbavitque sonus surgentis ad oscula nymphae. illa avidas iniecta manus heu sera cientem auxilia et magni referentem nomen amici detrahit, adiutae prono nam pondere vires.

Gaius Valerius Flaccus book Argonautica

“Here lies one whose name was writ in water.”

John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet

“Percy muttered. ‘I want to drown her.’
‘Be patient, water boy.’
‘Don’t call me water boy.”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

“Hawaii made the mouth of her soul water.”

Tom Robbins book Still Life with Woodpecker