Swallow Quotes

The sand murmurs that it wants to swallow everything. (Gao Xingjian)
Many men swallow the being cheated, but no man can ever endure to chew it. View quote
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter. View quote
Denis Diderot
A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest. View quote
Havelock Ellis
I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator. View quote
Barack Obama
To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind. View quote
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Swallow your pride, you will not die, it's not poison. View quote
Bob Dylan
One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of a March thaw, is the spring. View quote
Aldo Leopold
When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy. View quote
Barry White
Animals have sections in their stomachs which enable them to digest food without mastication, but human beings are supposed to chew their food before they swallow it down... So chew your food and give your salivary glands a chance to function! View quote
Tennessee Williams
[Writing songs] is no different than explaining to somebody what you dreamed last night: No one ever gives you crap for what you dreamed last night. "I was laying in my bed, and all of a sudden a stallion jumped on my bed and the next thing I know I was in Mars but it looked like my kitchen"... That's kind of what I do with my songs, write them in a dream-like manner. It's up to people to swallow it however they want. (Jason Mraz)
Nobody has tried to swallow us since I've been here. I think they are afraid how we would taste. View quote
Steve Jobs
God was feeling sardonic the day He created the Universe. So it's rather up to at least one man every few centuries to pop up and come just as close to making him swallow his laughter as possible. View quote
L. Ron Hubbard
Be careful what you swallow. Chew! View quote
Gwendolyn Brooks
Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything. View quote
Gwendolyn Brooks
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. View quote
Olaf Stapledon
I felt that on a basis of a "search for the miraculous" it would be possible to unite together a very large number of people who were no longer able to swallow the customary forms of lying and living in lying. View quote
P. D. Ouspensky
Sometimes you have to swallow the unswallowable. View quote
Arsène Wenger
He was not only the most brilliant strategist of all our generals, but he had a good political sense. A man of that quality was too difficult for Hitler to swallow for long. At conferences Manstein often differed from Hitler, in front of others, and would go so far as to declare that some of the ideas which Hitler put forward were nonsense. View quote
Erich von Manstein
Flattery won't hurt you if you don't swallow it. View quote
Kin Hubbard
If we could sniff or swallow something that would, for five or six hours each day, abolish our solitude as individuals, atone us with our fellows in a glowing exaltation of affection and make life in all its aspects seem not only worth living, but divinely beautiful and significant, and if this heavenly, world-transfiguring drug were of such a kind that we could wake up next morning with a clear head and an undamaged constitution -- then, it seems to me, all our problems (and not merely the one small problem of discovering a novel pleasure) would be wholly solved and earth would become paradise. (Aldous Huxley)
I saw him open his mouth wide. . . as though he had wanted to swallow all the air, all the earth, all the men before him. View quote
Joseph Conrad
For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy. View quote
Aristotle
A strong and secure man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds alike) just as he digests his meat, even when he has some bits to swallow. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
One swallow maketh not summer. View quote
John Heywood