High Water Mark

High water mark may refer to:

  • Ordinary high water mark, a landscape marking such as floodwater staining left by the highest level of water (e.g., Strandline, debris left by high tide)
  • High-water mark of the Confederacy, the turning point of the Battle of Gettysburg
  • High Water Mark of the Rebellion Monument, a Gettysburg Battlefield memorial
  • High water marks, a hedge fund term used to determine fund performance fees
  • High-water mark (computer security)

Famous quotes containing the words high, water and/or mark:

    “I had a thought for no one’s but your ears:
    That you were beautiful, and that I strove
    To love you in the old high way of love;
    That it had all seemed happy, and yet we’d grown
    As weary-hearted as that hollow moon.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

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

    “An early dew woos the half-opened flowers”
    —Unknown. The Thousand and One Nights.

    AWP. Anthology of World Poetry, An. Mark Van Doren, ed. (Rev. and enl. Ed., 1936)