(171 quotes found)
“Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.”
Charles Bukowski
“Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.”
Charles Dickens
“A small leak can sink a great ship”
Benjamin Franklin
“We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.”
Confucius
“Rats desert a sinking ship.”
Proverb
“It is cheering to see that the rats are still around - the ship is not sinking”
Eric Hoffer
“Although she feeds me bread of bitterness,/ And sinks into my throat her tiger's tooth,/ Stealing my breath of life, I will confess/ I love this cultured hell that tests my youth!”
Claude McKay
“You cannot sink someone else's end of the boat and still keep your own afloat.”
Charles Bower
“No one who has seen a baby sinking back satiated from the breast and falling asleep with flushed cheeks and a blissful smile can escape the reflection that this picture persists as a prototype of the expression of sexual satisfaction in later life.”
Sigmund Freud
“I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money.”
Charles de Gaulle