The best fish swim deep. [ Proverb ]

Fish ought to swim thrice. [ Proverb ]

When wine sink swords swim. [ Proverb ]

He must needs swim,
That is held up by the chin. [ Proverb ]

He can swim without bladders. [ Proverb ]

Shall the goslings teach the goose to swim? [ Proverb ]

I taught you to swim, and now you would drown me. [ Proverb ]

In the world who knows not to swim goes to the bottom. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Books bear him up awhile, and make him try to swim with bladders of philosophy. [ Rochester ]

Our natures are like oil; compound us with anything, yet still we strive to swim upon the top. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]

Time is like a river, in which metals and solid substances are sunk, while chaff and straws swim upon the surface. [ Bacon ]

I have ventured like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, this many summers in a sea of glory, but far beyond my depth: my high-blown pride at length broke under me. [ Shakespeare ]

That great mystery of time, were there no other; the illimitable, silent never-resting thing called time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent like an all-embracing oceantide, on which we and all the universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are and then are not - this is for ever very literally a miracle, a thing to strike us dumb; for we have no word to speak about it. [ Carlyle ]