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Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.
Thomas B. Macaulay

My Mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. I said, 'Mom, they weren't trying to teach you how to swim.'
Paula Poundstone

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.
Malcolm Muggeridge

Normally I make myself swim, do exercises. For zest I like going to the cinema.
Antonia Fraser

On the one hand, life is made infinitely easy for the personality in that stimulations, interests, uses of time and consciousness are offered to it from all sides. They carry the person as if in a stream, and one needs hardly to swim for oneself.
Georg Simmel

Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top.
Joan Rivers

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

People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
Marcel Proust

Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.
James A. Garfield

Punt returns will kill you quicker than a minnow can swim a dipper.
Darrell Royal


Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.
W. C. Fields

So this is how you swim inward. So this is how you flow outwards. So this is how you pray.
Mary Oliver

Take it from a guy: If you're in love with somebody, you will swim the stream, you will climb the mountain, you will slay the dragon. You're going to get to her somehow, some way.
Phil McGraw

The great thing about the business is how Darwinian it is. We have to swim or die - if you are found wanting over a period of time, you've either got to change what you're doing or find something else to do.
Steven Soderbergh

The main thing is healthy eating, exercise, which I do for special events, like if it's Sports Illustrated, or the swim suit catalogue for Victoria's Secret, or my own calendar that I did for the year 2000.
Heidi Klum

The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
Edsger Dijkstra

There is no life for girls in team sports past Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this, and because I thought golf would be too slow for me, and I was too scared to swim.
Billie Jean King

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

We don't need to eat anyone who would run, swim, or fly away if he could.
James Cromwell

What is a sophisticate? He is a man who thinks he can swim better than he can and sometimes he drowns.
Oscar Hammerstein II

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