All rivers, even the most dazzling, those that catch the sun in their course, all rivers go down to the ocean and drown. And life awaits man as the sea awaits the river.
Simone Schwarz-Bart

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
Edmund Burke

Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
Charles de Gaulle

Drink today, and drown all sorrow; you shall perhaps not do tomorrow.
John Fletcher

Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?
W. C. Fields

I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them fly high enough.
Lucy Larcom

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

I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.
Frida Kahlo

I was always into music. I think everyone is when they're a teenager, as a way to drown out the world.
Penelope Spheeris

If one synchronised swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too?
Steven Wright

In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information.
Anthony J. D'Angelo

My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.
Grover Norquist

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

People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.
Ann Landers

Shallows where a lamb could wade and depths where an elephant would drown.
Matthew Henry

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.
Daniel J. Boorstin

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

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

You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.
Edwin Louis Cole

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