Thirsty Quotes

• Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Money, Philosophical, Sea

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.57, Publishdrive

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• To drink is a small matter. To be thirsty is everything.

  Georges Duhamel

  Matter, Drink

  Georges Duhamel (1919). “The Heart's Domain”

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• No one can know the infinite importance of a tiny drop of water better than a thirsty bird or a little ant or a man of desert!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Water, Bird

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• Appreciate water before you are thirsty! Appreciate all the good things before you need them!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Appreciate, Water, Needs

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• Not only the thirsty seek the water, the water as well seeks the thirsty.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Water

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• When you're thirsty, it's too late to think about digging a well.

  Harvey Mackay

  Thinking, Digging, Too Late

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• I only take a drink on two occasions - when I'm thirsty and when I'm not.

  Brendan Behan

  Drinking, Two, Alcohol

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• I drink because I'm thirsty.

  Shane MacGowan

  Drink

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• God, help me to see others not as enemies or as ungodly but rather as thirsty people. And give me the courage and compassion to offer your Living Water, which alone quenches deep thirst.

  Henri Nouwen

  Compassion, Giving, Water

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• Glass half empty, glass half full. Well, either way you won't be going thirsty, count your blessings not your flaws.

  Lauren Aquilina

  Blessing, Glasses, Half

  Song: King, 2012

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• Look at you, you madman! Screaming you are thirsty and dying in a desert,
  when all around you there is nothing but water!

  Kabir

  Water, Dying, Desert

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• In the abundance of water - the fool is thirsty

  Bob Marley

  Jamaica, Water, Rasta

  Song: Rate Race, Album: Rastaman Vibration

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• If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.

  Sophocles

  Wisdom, Men, Drink

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• The secret of spiritual success is a hunger that persists…It is an awful condition to be satisfied with one’s spiritual attainments…God was and is looking for hungry, thirsty people.

  Smith Wigglesworth

  Spiritual, People, Secret

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• Search, no matter what situation you are in. O thirsty one, search for water constantly. Finally, the time will come when you will reach the spring.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Spring, Water

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• Three-fourths of the people you will ever meet are hungering and thirsting for sympathy. Give it to them, and they will love you.

  Dale Carnegie

  Love You, People, Giving

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.146, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• The attempt to satisfy greed is like drinking salty water when thirsty.
  When lost in greed we look outward rather than inward for satisfaction, yet we never find enough to fill the emptiness we wish to escape.
  The real hunger we feel is for knowledge of our true nature.

  Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

  Nature, Real, Drinking

  Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, Mark Dahlby (2004). “The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep”, p.38, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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• I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Spiritual, Inspiration, Energy

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• People want leadership, Mr. President, and in the absence of genuine leadership, they'll listen to anyone who steps up to the microphone. They want leadership. They're so thirsty for it they'll crawl through the desert toward a mirage, and when they discover there's no water, they'll drink the sand.

  Michael J. Fox

  Leadership, Drinking, Discovery

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• Dig your well before you're thirsty.

  Seth Godin

  Entrepreneur, Wells

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• There are two reasons for drinking wine...when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty, to prevent it... prevention is better than cure.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Drinking, Wine, Two

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• When I'm hungry, I eat. When I'm thirsty, I drink. When I feel like saying something, I say it.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Drink

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Don't think that because you haven't heard from me for a while that I went to sleep. I am still here, like a spirit roaming the night. Thirsty, hungry, seldom stopping to rest.

  Spike Lee

  Sleep, Night, Thinking

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• What does the poor man do at the rich man's door, the sick man in the presence of his physician, the thirsty man at a limpid stream? What they do, I do before the Eucharistic God. I pray. I adore. I love.

  Francis of Assisi

  Men, Doors, Sick

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• Whenever someone asks me if I want water with my scotch, I say, I'm thirsty, not dirty.

  Joe E. Lewis

  Drinking, Dirty, Food

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