Perhaps The truth depends on a walk around a lake. Wallace Stevens
[W]atching ducks land on a lake in Arkansas in the winter is about the closest to Heaven as you can find on this earth... and as someone who believes, according to my faith, I will go to Heaven when I die, I am pretty sure that there is duck hunting in Heaven! Mike Huckabee
Nothing is so discreet as a young face, for nothing is less mobile; it has the serenity, the surface smoothness, and the freshness of a lake. There is no character in women's faces before the age of thirty. Honoré de Balzac
Drop by drop would make a lake. Azerbaijani Proverb
The man is a river, the woman a lake. Kurdish Proverb
Living near a lake doesn't mean you eat fish whenever you need. African Proverb