Drowning on Dry Land may refer to:
- Drowning on Dry Land (play), a 2004 play by British playwright Alan Ayckbourn
- Drowning on Dry Land, a 1999 film directed by Carl Colpaert
- Drowning on Dry Land (Grey's Anatomy), an episode from Grey's Anatomy
- "Drowning on Dry Land/Fish Soup", a double single from Manfred Mann's Earth Band
Famous quotes containing the words drowning on, drowning, dry and/or land:
“Drowning one’s sorrows in drink only makes them worse.”
—Chinese proverb.
“I had to kick their law into their teeth in order to save them.
However I have heard that sometimes you have to deal
Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
Or they will haul themselves and you to the trash and the fish beneath.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“This was the most completely maritime town that we were ever in. It was merely a good harbor, surrounded by land, dry if not firm,—an inhabited beach, whereon fishermen cured and stored their fish, without any back country.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“What between the duties expected of one during one’s lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one’s death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That’s all that can be said about land.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)