Drinking Water Contaminated

Famous quotes containing the words drinking, water and/or contaminated:

    “When Methodist preachers come down
    A-preaching that drinking is sinful,
    I’ll wager the rascals a crown
    They always preach best with a skinful.”
    —Oliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774)

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

    “A happy people I call them still, whose peace and genuine morals have not been contaminated with European vices; and whose errors are only the errors of ignorance, and not the rooted depravity of a pretended civilization, and a spurious and mock Christianity.”
    —J.G. (John Gabriel)