#drown

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

— Oscar Hammerstein II

#drowns #man #sometimes #swim #than

People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold. ↗

— John Jay Chapman

#catching #chocolate #cold #drowning #dry

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

— Paulo Coelho

#falling #into #river #staying #submerged

The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide. ↗

— Larry Elder

#accidents #auto #black #cause #death

It would be nice to redefine ourselves - at the moment we are drowning in diversity. That's not a bad thing, its just going to take a while before we refocus. ↗

— Harvey Fierstein

#bad thing #be nice #before #diversity #drowning

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#hath #men #more #sea #than

Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#drowned #hath #men #more #neptune

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

— Charles de Gaulle

#drop #drown #every #fair #only

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

#come #delicate #drowned #easily #everyday

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

— Slobodan Milosevic

#drowned #false #flood #indictments #truth