Antonio Machado Quotes

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

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

I drink for the thirst to come.

I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.

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

The man who lives beside the water hole does not dream of thirst.

To be thirsty and to drink water is the perfection of sensuality rarely achieved. Sometimes you drink water; other times you are thirsty.

After all, it is not where one washes one's neck that counts but where one moistens one's throat.

I drink because I'm thirsty.

I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink.

The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.

It really depends on how thirsty I was.

Water is my drink.

A diaper is as inspiring as a drink.

Humans needed water or they would die, but dirty water killed as surely as thirst. You had to boil it before you drank it. This culture around tea was a way of tiptoeing along the knife edge between those two ways of dying.

Potable, n. Suitable for drinking. Water is said to be potable; indeed, some declare it our natural beverage, although even they find it palatable only when suffering from the recurrent disorder known as thirst, for which it is a medicine.

The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.

If you waste water, you die.

I take a lull from my CamelBak and choke at its potency. It tastes like bad decisions. It's perfect.

If you thirst you may drink.

That's absolutely true, about the eight glasses a day. There's no reason whatsoever to drink eight glasses of water a day unless you, for whatever reason, particularly like the taste of water. Most experts agree that unless there's something horribly wrong with you, you should just drink water whenever you're - get this - thirsty.

Who likes not the drinke, God deprives him of bread.

...not everyone is willing to defend a position of 'not knowing.' There is no virtue in ignorance for its own sake.

Knowing can be a curse on a person's life. I'd traded in a pack of lies for a pack of truth, and I didn't know which one was heavier.

Ask yourself whether you have earned the right to have an opinion. Opinions are easy to produce, so bad ones abound. Knowing that you don't know something is nearly as valuable as knowing it. The worst situation is thinking you know something when you don't.