“Drowning was bad enough. But drowning sad and sober, that's too cruel.”
“For in tremendous extremities human souls are like drowning men; well enough they know they are in peril; well enough they know the causes of that peril;--nevertheless, the sea is the sea, and these drowning men do drown.”
“If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too? ”
“If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it in conversation.”
“A girl that's born for hangin' ain't likely to be drowned.”
“They call it the drowning instinct. It's when drowning doesn't look like drowning.”