Joe E. Lewis Quotes

I can go eight days without a drink—but who wants to be a camel.

A cactus doesn't live in the desert because it likes the desert; it lives there because the desert hasn't killed it yet.

If you waste water, you die.

They say we're 98% water. We're that close to drowning. I like to live on the edge.

Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.

You should not see the desert simply as some faraway place of little rain. There are many forms of thirst.

I never drink water; that is the stuff that rusts pipes.

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.

Being funny wasn't a career choice growing up, it was my way out of situations; a way to survive another day.

I drink tons of water, because with the entire running around you can get dehydrated.

Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate.

I'm big into water. I tend to get dehydrated pretty quickly, so water is my way to get those essentials that I need to continue a workout or go get the rest of the day.

I drink lots of water - being under hot lamps all day is very dehydrating.

I haven't taken into account how much I drink. I do drink a lot when I am on stage anyway. You will see me come back and have sips of water. I haven't taken into account how much.

I always thought that people who live in the desert are a little crazy. It could be that the desert attracts that kind of person, or that after living there, you become that. It doesn't make much difference. But now I've done my 40 years in the desert.

A man in a desert can hold absence in his cupped hands knowing it is something more than water. There is a plant whose heart, if one cuts it out is replaced with fluid containing herbal goodness. Every morning one can drink the liquid amount of the missing heart.

A man could get used to anything if he had to.

There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.

I drink for the thirst to come.

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.

It frankly does not make sense to occasionally 'fill up' with water, with long periods of dehydration in between. The same thing is true spiritually. Spiritual thirst is a need for living water. A constant flow of living water is far superior to sporadic sipping.

The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whisky. By diligent effort, I learned to like it.

Life could not change the sun or water the desert, so it changed itself.

A place like this wears down everything, and tolerance is no exception. In here, coexistence passes for forgiveness. You do not learn to like something you abhor; you come to live with it...You live and let live, and eventually that becomes enough.

You learned that if you're tired enough, you can sleep sitting up. That the unendurable is perfectly endurable if you just take it a minute at a time, and when the alternative is no more minutes ever.