Arms Quote by Lou Reed

He tried to drown his troubles but they knew how to swim.

— Rita Mae Brown

They put arsenic in his meat And stared aghast to watch him eat; They poured strychnine in his cup And shook to see him…

— A. E. Housman

But the main point is that he still had swimmers in his sacks.” “Excuse me?” “You know, luv. Sperm, if you want to be…

— Jeaniene Frost

“I started to teach him how to swim only to leave him in the deep end too soon.”

— Katie Kacvinsky

“They found him late that night. He was floating head-down in the benjo, the long, deep trench of rain-churned shit that served as the…

— Richard Flanagan

“Drink never drown anyone's sorrows," he went on. "It only teaches them how to swim.”

— Marian Keyes

“He pushed a finger through the surface of the water to trace the outline of her mouth. Ethereal bits of flesh floated loosely about…

— P.J. Parker

He made a story for all of them, a story to give them strength. The words of the story poured out of his mouth…

— Leslie Marmon Silko

His drink, the running stream; his cup, the bare Of his palm closed; his bed, the hard, cold ground.

— Thomas Sackville Earl Of Dorset

And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to…

— Bible

“The smell of blood... it was on his breath. What does he do? I think. Drink it? I imagine him sipping it from a…

— Suzanne Collins

“But despite the fact that the doctors treated him, bled him, and gave him medicines to drink, he recovered.”

— Leo Tolstoy