“ You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe. ”
- Marcus Valerius Martial- Copy
- 2.1K
“ All Norwegian children learn to swim when they are very young because if you can't swim it is difficult to find a place to bathe. ”
- Roald Dahl- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Either it's going to be a great dunk or a great block,... I think statistics work in my favor. I don't like getting dunked on. ”
- Alonzo Mourning- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Let them think what they liked, but I didn't mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank — but that's not the same thing. ”
- Joseph Conrad- Copy
- 2.1K
“ I softly sink into the bath of sleep:With eyelids shut, I see around me closeThe mottled, violet vapors of the deep,That wraps me in repose. ”
- Josiah Gilbert Holland- Copy
- 1K
“ Self-pity is a death that has no resurrection, a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink. ”
- Elizabeth Elliot- Copy
- 2.9K
“ 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- Copy
- 1.3K
“ I'm like a duck: calm above the water, and paddling like hell underneath. ”
- Fred Shero- Copy
- 1.7K
“ After the Bush administration acknowledged our oil addiction, one might have expected a slam dunk, but this is an air ball. ”
- David Friedman- Copy
- 3.2K
“ If you can get an out on one pitch, take it. Let the strikeouts come on the outstanding pitches. Winning is the big thing. If you throw a lot of pitches, before you know it, your arm is gone. ”
- Dwight Gooden- Copy
- 3.5K
“ So I went to the dentist. He said "Say Aaah." I said "Why?" He said "My dog's died.'. ”
- Tommy Cooper- Copy
- 2.8K
“ 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- Copy
- 1.8K
“ I'm not a role model… Just because I dunk a basketball doesn't mean I should raise your kids. ”
- Charles Barkley- Copy
- 1K
“ 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- Copy
- 695
“ 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 Garfield- Copy
- 1.1K
“ People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim. ”
- Ann Landers- Copy
- 3K
“ For I dipped into the future, as far as human eye could see, saw a vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be. ”
- Alfred Lord Tennyson- Copy
- 2.4K
“ And if tonight my soul may find her peace in sleep, and sink in good oblivion, and in the morning wake like a new-opened flower then I have been dipped again in God, and new-created. ”
- D. H. Lawrence- Copy
- 2.6K
“ As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead. ”
- Lance Morrow- Copy
- 811
“ Every life has dark tracts and long stretches of somber tint, and no representation is true to fact which dips its pencil only in light, and flings no shadows on the canvas. ”
- Alexander Maclaren- Copy
- 706
“ I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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