When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that has not been filtered through either the berry of a grape, or else a tub of malt. These are the most reliable filters yet invented. – Samuel Butler
A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control over the uncontrollable. A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye. – Joan Didion
Upon my soul, this water tastes quite nice. I wonder what vintage now?… It tastes just like the year 1881 tasted. – G.K. Chesterton, The Flying Inn, 1914