Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of…

“Being in a ship is like being in jail, with the chance of being drowned.”

— Samuel Johnson

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in…

— Samuel Johnson

“You walk through the right way, you will be crowned. You walk through the wrong way, you will be drowned.”

— Bambang Purwadi

For one drop calls another down, till we are drowned in seas of grief.

— Isaac Watts

“Took long enough,” she called out, not wanting to admit how the sight of him made her throat hitch, how the man was so…

— Katherine McIntyre

Bees are sometimes drowned in the honey which they collectso some writers are lost in their collected learning.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“If I faint, pull me out. No Lannister has ever drowned in his bath and I don't mean to be the first.”

— George R.R. Martin

“She looked pale, mysterious, like a lily, drowned under water, he thought.”

— Virginia Woolf

“I have flown and fallen, and I have swum deep and drowned, but there should be more to love than "I survived it.”

— Lisa Mantchev

“I MADE MY CATS A WATER BED OUT OF A ZIPLOC BAG AND A SHOEBOX. THEY POPPED IT WITH THEIR CLAWS AND THEY ALMOST…

— Jenny Lawson

I wish I hadn't cried so much!” said Alice, as she swam about, trying to find her way out. I shall be punished for…

— Lewis Carroll

“Those mornings were fragile things — like flowers blooming in the middle of a battlefield. She hadn’t realized then that the soil beneath them…

— Maggie Sn

You are not drowned when u fall into the water but u are when you stay in there.

— Psalmgreat

Helen: You've got talent and ambition. Don: Talent? Ambition? That's dead long ago. That's drowned. That's drifting around with a bloated belly on a…

— Billy Wilder

“THAT SCAR. SHE DREW HER EYES FROM IT BUT THEY DESCENDED AGAIN AND YET AGAIN UNTIL SHE FELT PECULIARLY DROWNED IN THE GUILTY MARK.”

— Rachel Heffington