#sinking

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#flame #friendship #pass #rosy #sinking

We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose. ↗

— George Orwell

#belong #class #dreadful #feared #further

But all the love in the world won't save a sinking ship. You have to either bail or jump overboard. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#life #love #sarah-dessen #sinking-ship #life

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority. ↗

— John C. Calhoun

#down #inferiority #into #life #nothing

My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire. ↗

— James Joyce

#her #mind #polished #quagmire #sinking

It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you. ↗

— Matthew Hale

#own #praise #reputation #sign #sinking

His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship. ↗

— Edmund Wilson

#dear #desperate #fiddling #his #life

I drilled holes in the floor of the club, and it's sinking. ↗

— Bobby Darin

#floor #holes #i #sinking

In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#deeper #easier #get #ocean #sinking

Candidate Obama promised to fundamentally transform America and that's one promise he has kept. Turning a shining city on a hill into a sinking ship. ↗

— Sarah Palin

#candidate #city #fundamentally #hill #into