Drowning Quotes

Olivia: What's a drunken man like, fool? Feste: Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman: one draught above heat makes him a fool; the second mads him; and a third drowns him.

It's not the sea that drowns you-it's the puddle.

I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.

Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub.

I don’t want to eliminate government. I just want to shrink it down to the size that you can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the tub.

The proverb says, "Born lucky, always lucky," and I am very superstitious. As a small boy I was notoriously lucky. It was usual for one or two of our lads (per annum) to get drowned in the Mississippi or in Bear Creek, but I was pulled out in a 2/3 drowned condition 9 times before I learned to swim, and was considered to be a cat in disguise.

You can't drown yourself in drink. I've tried, you float.

I suppose you are two fathoms deep in mathematics, and if you are, then God help you. For so am I, only with this difference: I stick fast in the mud at the bottom, and there I shall remain.

I was brought up to believe that a person must be rescued when drowning, regardless of religion and nationality.

Swimming is not a sport. Swimming is a way to keep from drowning. That's just common sense!

Books bear him up a while, and make him try to swim with bladders of philosophy.

You don't drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.

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.

Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.

We are swimming on the face of time and all else has drowned, is drowning, or will drown.

We are drowning in information.

Down in the water, Octavian yelled, “Get me out of here! I’ll kill you!” “Tempting,” Percy called down.

I had a nightmare about being on a cruise ship and the ship going down. It was an arduous process of the ship going down and we knew it was going down. There was everyone I know and love on the ship.

You don't need water to feel like you're drowning, do you?

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.

He means … to keep his hand under our chin to prevent us from drowning, but not to lift our heads out of the water.

Drowning was bad enough. But drowning sad and sober, that's too cruel.

I was taught that if you see a person drowning, you must jump into the water to save them, whether you can swim or not.

It feels like I'm in a swimming pool, and I am constantly trying to stay above water. Sometimes I feel like I'm slipping, and you try to come up for air, and that's how it is when looking for the next role.

You can die from someone else's misery — emotional states are as infectious as diseases. You may feel you are helping the drowning man but you are precipitating your own disaster. The unfortunate sometimes draw misfortune on themselves; they will also draw it on you. Associate with the happy and fortunate instead.