Oil

You should respect each other and refrain from disputes; you should not, like water and oil, repel each other, but should, like milk and water, mingle together.
- Siddhartha Gautama, 563 - 483 BC

It is prudent to pour the oil of delicate politeness upon the machinery of friendship.
- Sidonie Gabrielle Claudine Colette, 1873 - 1954

The oil can is mightier than the sword.
- Everett McKinley Dirksen, 1896 - 1969

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.
- Miguel de Cervantes, 1547 - 1616

An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
- Washington Irving, 1783 - 1859

Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us forty years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!
- Golda Meir