Quotes of Drown - somelinesforyou

“ When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there. ”

- Edwin Louis Cole

“ The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight. ”

- Harold Rosenberg

“ With so much information now online, it is exceptionally easy to simply dive in and drown. ”

- Alfred Glossbrenner

“ Wine hath drowned more men than the sea. ”

- Thomas Fuller

“ We don't strain at a gnat and swallow a camel, nor swim in an ocean and drown in a puddle. ”

- Taylor Caldwell

“ We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge. ”

- Rutherford D. Roger

“ Two frogs fell into a bowl of cream. One didn't panic, he relaxed and drowned. The other kicked and struggled so much that the cream turned to butter and he walked out. ”

- Unknown

“ So often we have a kind of vague, wistful longing that the promises of Jesus should be true. The only way really to enter into them is to believe them with the clutching intensity of a drowning man. ”

- William Barclay

“ Progress is a tide. If we stand still we will surely be drowned. To stay on the crest, we have to keep moving. ”

- Harold Mayfield

“ One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat. ”

- Ann Landers

“ No one has ever drowned in sweat. ”

- Lou Holtz

“ Shallows where a lamb could wade and depths where an elephant would drown. ”

- Mathew Henry

“ I don't drown my sorrows; I suffocate them with chocolate. ”

- Unknown

“ All the water in the world cannot drown you — unless it gets inside. ”

- Mary Manin Boggs

“ We have for the first time an economy based on a key resource that is not only renewable, but self-generating. Running out of it is not a problem, but drowning in it is. ”

- John Naisbitt

“ What do you do when your competitor is drowning? Get a live hose - and stick it in his mouth. ”

- M. Douglas Ivester

“ You can't drown your sorrows, they always float to the surface. ”

- Unknown

“ What is a sophisticate? He is a man who thinks he can swim better than he can and sometimes he drowns. ”

- Oscar Hammerstein II

“ Then there is the man who drowned crossing a stream with an average depth of six inches. ”

- W. I. E. Gates

“ Guido clung to this thought like a drowning man clutching at a straw. He was rich and famous now, he told himself, and wasn't that what he'd always dreamed of? ”

- Michael Ende

“ It was as helpful as throwing a drowning man both ends of the rope. ”

- Arthur Baer

“ Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ Being in a ship is like being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune. ”

- Thomas Fuller

“ We are drowning in information, but starving for knowledge. ”

- Rutherford D. Rogers

“ Hope is like a piece of string when you're drowning; it just isn't enough to get you out by itself. ”

- Robert Jordan

“ People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim. ”

- Ann Landers

“ Let the coming hour overflow with joy, and let pleasure drown the brim. ”

- William Shakespeare
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