Wine has drowned more than the sea. [ Publius Syrus ]

Good swimmers are oftenest drowned. [ Proverb ]

Good swimmers at length are drowned. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea. [ Proverb ]

Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune. [ Garibaldi ]

Over the river they beckon to me,
Loved ones who've crossed to the farther side;
The gleam of their snowy robes I see.
But their voices are drowned in the dashing tide. [ Nancy A. W. Priest ]

He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned. [ Proverb ]

Never was cat or dog drowned, that could but see the shore. [ Proverb ]

He came safe from the East Indies, and was drowned in the Thames. [ Proverb ]

Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. [ Samuel Johnson ]

For one drop calls another down, till we are drowned in seas of grief. [ Dr. Watts ]

In a great river great fish are found ; but take heed lest you be drowned. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Money is a bottomless sea, in which honour, conscience, and truth may be drowned. [ Kazlay ]

The freedom of some is the freedom of the herd of swine that ran violently down a steep place into the sea and were drowned. [ Rev. W. Jay ]