SWIMMING

Related Subjects: Bathing, Sport, Water

1. Mother, may I go out to swim?
   Yes, my darling daughter:
   Hang your clothes on a hickory limb
   But don't go near the water.—Anonymous
   

2. She gave me a good character,
   But said I could not swim.—LEWIS CARROLL, Alice in Wonderland
   

3. I can swim like a fish.—JOHN FLETCHER, The Sea-Voyage
   

4. I read it in the story-book, that, for to kiss his dear,
   Leander, swam the Hellespont,—and I will swim this here.—O. W. HOLMES, The Ballad of the Oysterman
   

5. Good swimmers are oftenest drowned.—Proverb
   

6. Good swimmers at length are drowned.—Proverb
   

7. Drown not thyself to save a drowning man.—Proverb
   

8. Little wanton boys that swim on bladders.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry VIII
   

9. I can swim like a cluck.—SHAKESPEARE, The Tempest
   

10. An unpractised swimmer plunging still,
    With too much labour drowns for want of skill.—SHAKESPEARE, The Rape of Lucrece
    

11. They care not whether they sink or swim.—THOMAS STARKEY, England