"for whatever we lose (like a you or a me)/it's always ourselves we find in the sea"

E.E. Cummings (1894 - 1962)

"You can't trust water:  even a straight stick turns crooked in it."

W.C. Fields (1880 - 1946)

"Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)

"One man's transparency is another's humiliation."

Gerry Adams (1948-present)

"Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it."

Lao Tzu (Unknown.  Possibly around 6th century BCE)

"Existentialism means that no one else can take a bath for you."

Delmore Schwartz (1913-1966)

"Never cry over spilt milk, because it may have been poisoned."

W.C. Fields (1880-1946)

“He's a little wet behind the ears”
Proverb