Swim Quotes

In matters of style, swim with the current: in matters of principle, stand like a rock. (Thomas Jefferson)

If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim.

Margaret Thatcher

He who wants to get to the source must swim against the current.

Stanisław Jerzy Lec

Now that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing - to learn to live on earth as human beings.

George Bernard Shaw

The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.

Edsger W. Dijkstra

I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.

Neil Armstrong

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

Alan Watts

I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Frida Kahlo

All my life I've swam in the loo butterfly style.

Faina Ranevskaya

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom. (Sam Walton)

I drank to drown my pain, but the damned pain learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good behavior.

Frida Kahlo

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim."

Lyndon B. Johnson

Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education --if it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were placed on the few things absolutely essential to this result, if the tortoise were allowed time to creep, and the bird permitted to fly, and the fish to swim, towards the enchanted and divine sources of Helicon --all might in their own way arrive there, and rejoice in its flowers, its beauty, and its coolness.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running -- that's the way to live. All alone and free in the soft sands of the beach....

Jack Kerouac

Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

James A. Garfield

In rivers and bad governments the lightest things swim at top.

Benjamin Franklin

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

W. C. Fields

If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to meet it.

Jonathan Winters

People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.

Ann Landers

Be not the slave of your own past ... plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience, that shall explain and overlook the old. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.

Malcolm Muggeridge

We catched fish, and talked, and we took a swim now and then to keep off sleepiness. It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big still river, laying on our backs looking up at the stars, and we didn't ever feel like talking loud, and it warn't often that we laughed, only a kind of low chuckle. We had mighty good weather, as a general thing, and nothing ever happened to us at all, that night, nor the next, nor the next.

Mark Twain

When his companions wished to return to their country, and asked him what message he wished them to carry home, he bade them say this: that children ought to be provided with property and resources of a kind that could swim with them even out of a shipwreck.

Vitruvius

If I have a Sunday free, I'll go up the coast and spend some time on the beach. I scuba dive and swim and sail. A lot of the things I like are around the water.

Parker Stevenson

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