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«Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death»

Author: Ben Jonson (Dramatist, Poet) | About: Drinking | Keywords: after death, drown

«There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning. A fish that is in the water has no choice that he is. Genius would have it that we swim in sand. We are fish and we drown.»

Author: James Dean | Keywords: conditioning, crook, drown, impale, impaled, swim

«Listen. If we can't break the ice, how 'bout we drown it?»

Author: Paul Bettany (Actor) | Keywords: bout, bouts, Charles, drown, flask, Nash, offering, whiskey

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

Author: Charles de Gaulle | About: Diplomacy | Keywords: Diplomats, drown, fair weather, rains

«And down his mouth comes to my mouth! and down His bright dark eyes come over me, like a hood Upon my mind! his lips meet mine, and a flood Of sweet fire sweeps across me, so I drown Against him, die, and find death good»

Author: D.H. Lawrence (Essayist, Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: across, bright, Bright Eyes, come over, die down, drown, flood, flooded, flooding, flood in, hood, lips, meeting of minds, mine, So I, sweeps, sweep through, sweep up

«By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.»

Author: Edmund Burke (Philosopher, Statesman) | About: Nations | Keywords: dike, dikes, drown, gnaw, gnawed, gnawing, gnaws, gnaw at, rat

«Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?»

Author: W. C. Fields (Actor, Comic) | Keywords: drown, sting, vat, vats, whiskey

«But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.»

Author: Bible | Keywords: drown, fall into, hurtful, lusts, perdition, snare

«Drink does not drown care, but waters it, and makes it grow faster.»

Author: Benjamin Franklin (Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer) | Keywords: drink, drinking water, drown, faster, waters

«Drown not thyself to save a drowning man»

Author: Proverb | Keywords: drown

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