Quotes with drown

  • People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.
  • Once you get into this great stream of history you can't get out. You can drown. Or you can be pulled ashore by the tide. But it is awfully hard to get out when you are in the middle of the stream - if it is intended that you stay there.

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  • Edmund Burke By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Charles de Gaulle Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains, they drown in every drop.
    Charles de Gaulle
    French statesman (1890 - 1970)
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  • John H. Aughey God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them.
    John H. Aughey
    American clergyman and writer (1828 - 1911)
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  • Jimmy Carter I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.
    Jimmy Carter
    American statesman, 39e President (1924 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Anthony J. D'Angelo In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information.
    Anthony J. D'Angelo
    American writer
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  • Richard Nixon Once you get into this great stream of history you can't get out. You can drown. Or you can be pulled ashore by the tide. But it is awfully hard to get out when you are in the middle of the stream - if it is intended that you stay there.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • George Santayana The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey.
    Dialogues in Limbo (1925)
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Peter Ackroyd The world is a sea in which we all must surely drown.
    Peter Ackroyd
    English biographer, novelist and critic (1949 - )
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  • Alan Watts To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Bill Dedman With better gear, firefighters no longer surround and drown a fire - they go in.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Billy Tauzin You probably have to have redundant levee systems with canals in between them, like the Dutch have, to make sure that incoming water is channeled off to areas where you deal with it rather than have it drown you.
    Billy Tauzin
    American lobbyist and politician (1943 - )
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  • Ann Landers People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.
    Ann Landers
    American columnist (1918 - 2002)
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