Best Swell Sayings

132 Swell quotes by 118 unique authors

When the storm brews and the waves swell, only an experienced captain can control the ship and save it. — Mata Amritanandamayi
Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If they only knew that it's… — Jean Anouilh
Do you wanna see something swell? — Jon Lovitz
To live on the land we must learn from the ocean, to be true as the tide and free as the wind swell. — John Denver
Nowadays you can't tell, watch the crotch, it may swell. — DJ Quik
A ship's engine far away on the water expands the summer-night horizon. Both joy and sorrow swell in the dew's magnifying glass. Without really knowing,… — Tomas Transtromer
But oars alone can ne'er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost. — William Cowper
O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap Of murky buildings: climb with me the steep,-- Nature's… — John Keats
If, when stung by slander or ill-nature, we wax proud and swell with anger, it is a proof that our gentleness and humility are unreal,… — Saint Francis de Sales
The gulfing whale was like a dot in the spell. Yet look upon it, and 'twould size and swell To its huge self, and the… — William Blake
Ingredients to success: know what you do well, know what to do well, and know someone who's swell. — Criss Jami
You had to feel the swell change. You had to go with the change. He told me that. No eye is on the sparrow but… — Joan Didion
I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' is swell. — J. B. Priestley
If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody. — J D Salinger
Mark Grotjahn's large new paintings abound with torrents of ropy impasto, laid down in thickets, cascading waves, and bundles that swell, braid around, or overlap… — Jerry Saltz
Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like… — Leon Trotsky
Kent. Where's the king? Gent. Contending with the fretful elements; Bids the wind blow the earth into the sea, Or swell the curled waters 'bove… — William Shakespeare
If I had grown up in that house I couldn't have loved it more, couldn't have been more familiar with the creak of the swing,… — Donna Tartt
No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be; Am an attendant lord, one that will do To swell a progress, start a… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
They were gone and I missed them but even so I was very happy. For the rest of my life no matter where on this… — Russell Banks
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The… — Abraham Lincoln
Some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up… — E L Konigsburg
The woman will sit eternally in the tall black armchair. I will be the one woman you will never have...excessive living weighs down the imagination:… — Anais Nin
Ten times a day something happens to me like this - some strengthening throb of amazement - some good sweet empathic ping and swell. This… — Mary Oliver
I don't mind your showing me your legs. They're very swell legs and it's a pleasure to make their acquaintace. I don't mind if you… — Raymond Chandler

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