Drowned Quotes

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
Samuel Johnson

Food, Enough, Chance

Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
Samuel Johnson

Chance, Jail, Ship

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.
Thomas Fuller

No one has ever drowned in sweat.
Lou Holtz

The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.
Karl A. Menninger

Fear, Anger, Hate

Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
Thomas Fuller

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.
Ann Landers

A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, he said, for he will be going out on a day he shouldn't. But we do be afraid of the sea, and we do only be drownded now and again.
John Millington Synge

Said, Afraid, Again

Everything that I have professionally, and so much of what I have personally, is because of this great, fair city, and to see it being drowned like this is almost unbearable.
Harry Connick, Jr.

Great, Everything, Fair

I think the sheer number of pop stars has kind of drowned out, somewhat, our interest. We're just submerged.
Kristin Scott Thomas

Stars, Interest, Number

Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it.
Stephen Sondheim

Why, Rich, Poor

The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise.
Roger Ebert

Movies, Made, Ambition

The question is what will Mitt Romney do as president if his policy is simply to be hands off and let the government be made so small it can be drowned in a bathtub. In the 21st century global economy, no state alone has the ability to compete against China.
Jennifer Granholm

Government, Alone, Made

I've read plenty of J.G. Ballard, but I'm not really a Ballardian. I've met Ballardians, and I know when I can't compete. I like Ballard in his relatively unchallenging apocalyptic mode: 'Vermilion Sands,' 'The Drowned World,' 'The Burning World,' 'The Crystal World.'
Lev Grossman

Read, Burning, Compete

We made sure nobody died on the show. We made sure nobody ever drowned on 'Baywatch.'
David Hasselhoff

Made, Show, Sure

I enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it's raining, it's terribly cold, I'm wet and I'm being drowned and playing a scene with dinosaur eggs in a laboratory, I'd probably take the latter. It's warmer and generally more comfortable!
Sam Neill

Enjoy, Between, Choice

With the requests of some he complied, and has published a discourse, delivered before the Society for recovering drowned persons, which may be justly pronounced one of the most beautiful and interesting sermons in the English language.
John Strachan

Society, Beautiful, May

Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live.
Raoul Vaneigem

Life, Live, Before

The questions worth asking, in other words, come not from other people but from nature, and are for the most part delicate things easily drowned out by the noise of everyday life.
Robert B. Laughlin

Life, Nature, Words

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

Education, Keep, Purpose

Such fire was not by water to be drowned, nor he his nature changed by changing ground.
Ludovico Ariosto

Nature, Fire, Water

I have been in danger of being drowned twice.
John Aubrey

The truth can not be drowned by any flood of false indictments.
Slobodan Milosevic

Truth, False, Flood

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