Swallowed Quotes
254 quotes by 214 authors
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A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back…
— Sai Baba
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Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.
— Josh Billings
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Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed…
— Aesop
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If we had not driven them into hell, hell would have swallowed us.
— Alexander Suvorov
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She was luxuriously tired and her muscles felt sore from the unaccustomed strain of riding astride. Nothing had ever tasted so good as the cool…
— Kathleen Winsor
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The surgeon general warned today that saliva causes stomach cancer. But apparently only when swallowed in small amounts over a long period of time.
— George Carlin
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If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.
— William Jennings Bryan
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Oh let us continually keep faith in exercise, till it be entirely swallowed up in the boundless ocean of beatific vision.
— George Whitefield
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There was an old man of Orleans, Who was given to eating of beans; Till once out of sport, he swallowed a quart, That dyspeptic…
— Edward Lear
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[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth. The sober facts of geology shuffled, so as to play a rogue's…
— Adam Sedgwick
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I told my doctor, "I've swallowed a bottle of sleeping pills" and he told me to have a few drinks and get some rest.
— Rodney Dangerfield
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This boulder seemed like a curious volume, regularly paged, with a few extracts from older works. Bacon tells us that "some books are to be…
— Archibald Geikie
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He first selected the smallest one...and then bowed his head as though he were saying grace. Opening his mouth very wide, he struggled for a…
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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She was more than human to me. She was a Fairy, a Sylph. I don't know what she was, anything that no one ever saw,…
— Charles Dickens
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Some were scattered about the ring, one or two went in the sawdust tub, one I spat out as I fell, and I am thundering…
— Johnny Basham
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If you are quiet on the bench you will just get swallowed up. It is like a mosh pit.
— Tisha Venturini
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But when I’m jumping, it’s as if my feelings are going upward to the sky. Really, my urge to be swallowed up by the sky…
— Naoki Higashida
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We get swallowed up by the illusion that unless we can find a place to belong, we are going to be all alone in the…
— Naoki Higashida
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Just by looking at nature, I feel as if I'm being swallowed up into it, and in that moment I get the sensation that my…
— Naoki Higashida
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People with autism never, ever feel at ease, wherever we are. Because of this, we wander off - or run away - in search of…
— Naoki Higashida
Who Wrote These Swallowed Quotes
214 authors contributed a total of 254 Swallowed Quotes, led by these top contributors: