Quote by Arthur Ransome Download Open image ““Better drowned than duffers, if not duffers won't drown.”” — Arthur Ransome ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“You drown not by falling in the river but by staying submerged in it.” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Drowning is bad enough, he reflected sourly, but drowning sad and sober, that's too cruel.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“You flounder through life, struggling desperately so you won't drown, even though you would float if you'd just relax.” — Natsuki Takaya Copy Share Image
“I was like a whirlpool of tragedy, and anybody who dared to get too close to me could get sucked in and drown. Like… — Victoria Laurie Copy Share Image
“Life is full of drowning people, reading and willing to drown you, too.” — Jennifer Lynn Barnes Copy Share Image
“You don't drown by falling in the water, you drowned by staying there” — Edwin Louis Cole Copy Share Image
“I would rather drown in the depths of Love than splash around on the shore of complacency.” — Mishi McCoy Copy Share Image
You write not for children but for yourself. And if by good fortune children enjoy what you enjoy, why then you are a writer… — Arthur Ransome Copy Share Image
Fishing is not like billiards, in which it is possible to attain a disgusting perfection. — Arthur Ransome Copy Share Image
When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time. — Arthur Ransome Copy Share Image
Fishing books , lit by emotion recollected in tranquility, are like poetry. .. . We do not think of them as books but as… — Arthur Ransome Copy Share Image
Good fishermen know that in talking about fishing, nothing is more interesting than the truth. — Arthur Ransome Copy Share Image
“They found, like many explorers before them, that somehow, in their absence, they had got into trouble at home.” — Arthur Ransome Copy Share Image
“The island had come to seem one of those places seen from the train that belong to a life in which we shall never… — Arthur Ransome Copy Share Image
For at least the last 275 years the honesty of fishermen has been somewhat questionable. It should be noted that Izaak Walton whose book… — Arthur Ransome Copy Share Image
“Who would wave a flag to be rescued if they had a desert island of their own? That was the thing that spoilt Robinson… — Arthur Ransome Copy Share Image
“The storm came pretty soon," said John. "They won't have got much further before it caught them. We may find them any minute. They'll… — Arthur Ransome Copy Share Image
