Sunk

Famous quotes containing the word sunk:

    And they wrapped him up in an old cow’s hide,
    And they sunk him in the Lowland sea,
    And they sunk him in the Lowlands low.
    Unknown. The Golden Vanity (l. 43–45)

    Your hair may be brushed, but your mind’s untidy,
    You’ve had about seven hours’ sleep since Friday,
    No wonder you feel that lost sensation;
    You’re sunk from a riot of relaxation.
    Ogden Nash (1902–1971)

    Words convey the mental treasures of one period to the generations that follow; and laden with this, their precious freight, they sail safely across gulfs of time in which empires have suffered shipwreck and the languages of common life have sunk into oblivion.
    —Anonymous. Quoted in Richard Chevenix Trench, On the Study of Words, lecture 1 (1858)