Top 17 Foundered Quotes
#1. Tall ships and tall kings Three times three, What brought they from the foundered land Over the flowing sea? Seven stars and seven stones And one white tree. (The Two Towers)
J.R.R. Tolkien
#2. It was a time of dark dreams. They washed in like flotsam on the night tide, slipping beneath doorways and window latches, rising through the streets and hills; and the little fishing-town of Scarlock foundered deep.
J.A. Clement
#3. Not only does every animal live at the expense of some other animal or plant, but the very plants are at war ... The individuals of a species are like the crew of a foundered ship, and none but good swimmers have a chance of reaching the land.
Thomas Huxley
#4. Love's ship has foundered on the rocks of life. We're quits: stupid to draw up a list of mutual sorrows, hurts and pains.
Vladimir Mayakovsky
#5. When a man does not trust his wife's fidelity, it is entirely possible that it is because the man's own fidelity is wavering, or worse, foundered.
Ilya Atani
#6. But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots.
Basil Bunting
#7. By the 1880s, baseball was entrenched in the Cape's sandy soil. Semipro teams, commonplace before World War I, were organized into the first Cape Cod League in 1923 - Orleans joined the four original teams five years later. By 1940, the league had foundered on financial shoals and disbanded.
Jane Leavy
#8. I had removed my patent leather shoes after a while, for they foundered badly in the sand. It pleased me to think they would be perched there on the silver log, pointing out to sea, like a sort of soul-compass, after I was dead.
Sylvia Plath
#9. By Pluto sent at the request of Saturn. Arcita's horse in terror danced a pattern And leapt aside and foundered as he leapt, And ere he was aware Arcite was swept Out of the saddle and pitched upon his head Onto the ground, and there he lay for dead; His breast was shattered by the saddle-bow.
Geoffrey Chaucer
#10. Old godheads sink in space and drown Their arks like foundered galleons sucked down.
Don Marquis
#12. God sees us perfect in His Son while He disciplines and chastens and purges us that we may be partakers of His holiness.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#13. When I'm in the midst of finishing a book, I can be working around the clock.
Gail Tsukiyama
#14. We are the sum of our contradictions, together they make us whole.
Marty Rubin
#15. I won't push you, beautiful. Anything that happens from here on out is completely up to you.
Aly Martinez
#16. the end of a couple is like a death, and the notion of death, of temporariness, can remind us of the value of things,
Mohsin Hamid
#17. When I write notes in my journal, I'm just trying to scribble down as much as possible. Later on, I decide whether to follow some of those first impressions or whether to abandon them.
Natasha Trethewey
