Top 541 Swallow Quotes & Sayings

And an ocean can swallow you, even when you can swim.

You ain't heard that we swallow guys?

Farewell, farewell," said the swallow, with a heavy heart, as he left the warm countries, to fly back into Denmark. There he had a nest over the window of a house in which dwelt the writer of fairy tales. The swallow sang "Tweet, tweet," and from his song came the whole story.

And the ones that know you so well are the ones that can swallow you whole.

There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death. They don't honor their own lives ... their minds are full of cotton. They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them.... Most people's deaths are a sham. There's nothing left to die.

It's surely summer. for there's a swallow: Come one swallow, his mate will follow, The bird race quicken and wheel and thicken.

I admit to drinking it, but I did not swallow.

They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them.

If the day ever comes when I can swallow defeat, I'll quit.

Eat as much as you like-just don't swallow it.

Why don't you swallow razor blades?

She handed him a glass of water and two Aleve gelcaps. “They’re anti-inflammatories. They will dull the pain a little bit and keep down swelling and redness. Swallow the pills, don’t chew.” “Well, I thought I’d stick them into my nose and impersonate a walrus, but if you insist, I’ll swallow them.

To learn flamenco is to swallow your pride.

Always chew on your pretzels before you swallow.

Taste everything, but swallow only what fits.

A royal garden is a very big place for slug, because slug is too slow, but it is small for a swallow which is too fast! Universe is a very big place for us simply because we are too slow! The day man becomes a swallow, universe will get smaller!

If somebody in the crowd spits at you, you've got to swallow it.

I admit I was drinking a Guinness... but I did not swallow.

True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings.

Lizzie Bright Griffin, do you ever wish the world would just go ahead and swallow you whole?" "Sometimes I do," she said, and then smiled. "but sometimes I figure I should just go ahead and swallow it.

Fly and you will catch the swallow.

I tried to swallow his nonsense without choking.

When you love a woman, you love yourself, and it's terrible really, how it seems perfectly possible to swallow the other. With a man you want to join, you want your ribs to connect like handcuffs. But with a woman if you swallow, she becomes you.

The body is like an elaborate metaphor. One may be able to taste and not swallow, like the anorexic, or to swallow and not integrate, like the bulimic or obese.

Dysphagia is the medical term for not being able to swallow, and I know that there are two kinds of dysphagia: oropharyngeal and esophageal. But maybe there is also a third kind of dysphagia that comes when your heart breaks into pieces. I can't swallow because I have that kind.

I'm the type to swallow my blood before I swallow my pride.

One swallow never makes a summer.

As for me, you wonder why I am a socialist. I'll tell you. It is because socialism is inevitable; because the present rotten and irrational system cannot endure; because the day is past for your man on horseback. The slaves won't stand for it. They are too many, and willy-nilly they'll drag down the would-be equestrian before he gets astride. You can't get away from them, and you'll have to swallow the whole slave-morality. It's not a nice mess, I'll allow. But it's been a-brewing and swallow it you must.

I loathe the urchin's cruelty to the cat, but I will not loathe the urchin. I loathe Hitler's mass-torturing, but not Hitler; and the money-man's heartlessness, but not the man. I love the swallow's flight, and I love the swallow; the urchin's gleam of tenderness, and the urchin.

You can swim in life and seawater, but both are hard to swallow.

My uncle ordered popovers from the restaurant's bill of fare. And, when they were served, he regarded them with a penetrating stare. Then he spoke great words of wisdom as he sat there on that chair: "To eat these things," said my uncle, "You must exercise great care. You may swallow down what's solid, but you must spit out the air!" And as you partake of the world's bill of fare, that's darned good advice to follow. Do a lot of spitting out the hot air. And be careful what you swallow.

Sometimes you have to swallow the unswallowable.

One has to swallow a bitter pill to get cured.

Flattery won't hurt you if you don't swallow it.

Be careful what you swallow. Chew!

To be without God is to be a snake / who wants to swallow an elephant.

I'm too full to swallow my pride

One swallow alone does not make a summer.

I went to church and couldn't swallow it. The music was nice but I don't belong there.

If you have to swallow a frog, don't stare at it too long.

I like short records in general that you can swallow in one sitting.

I really have had to swallow my own prejudice at times.

The man who believes in giraffes would swallow anything.

I can't sit back and swallow stuff. I live in a time and place, and in a country on earth where you're not supposed to swallow it. People just gave up.

My aunt in Texas, when she did the hazing things, they had girls swallow oysters. They'd wrap an oyster in dental floss, swallow them, and then pull them back up.

The swallow is come! The swallow is come! O, fair are the seasons, and light Are the days that she brings, With her dusky wings, And her bosom snowy white!

Swallow what's bitter in the cup and move on.

Eat as much as you like - just don't swallow it.

The swallow that hibernates underwater is a creature called yearning.

Guts are important. Your guts are what digest things. But it is your brains that tell you which things to swallow and which not to swallow.

Publicity is like poison; it doesn't hurt unless you swallow it.

The sand murmurs that it wants to swallow everything.

I want a girl that can swallow my pride.

Defeat isn't bitter if you don't swallow it.

If someone in the crowd spits at you, you have just got to swallow it.

It is better to swallow a sheep or a goat than swallow what he has been swallowing.

The bleakness of what faces us is difficult to swallow. As long as we engage in happy platitudes and a false kind of vision of the possible, it may empower you over the short term, but it is eventually, because of the reality in front of us, going to lead to despair and cynicism and apathy. It's better to swallow hard the bitter pill of what we're up against.

The dog gnawes the bone because he cannot swallow it.

One swallow maketh not summer.

Patience is the panacea; but where does it grow, or who can swallow it?