Top 1200 Sea Voyage Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

The sea hath no king but God alone.

The brain is an island in an osmotically homogeneous sea.

It is not surprising that only one medieval state, Venice, long possessed anything clearly identifiavble as a navy in this sense. We shall see that no state in the British Isles attained attained this level of sophistication before the 16th century, and no history of the Royal Navy, in any exact sense of the words, could legitimately begin much before then. This book, which does, is not an institutional history of the Royal Navy, but a history of naval warfare as an aspect of national history. All and any methods of fighting at sea, or using the sea for warlike purposes, are its concern.

Only fools and passengers drink at sea.

Life sucks order from a sea of disorder.

Love is the sea where intellect drowns.

Knowledge is an island surrounded by a sea of mystery.

I hope you will be ready to own publicly, whenever you shall be called to it, that by your great and frequent urgency you prevailed on me to publish a very loose and uncorrect account of my travels, with directions to hire some young gentleman of either university to put them in order, and correct the style, as my cousin Dampier did, by my advice, in his book called "A Voyage round the world."

The sea is as near as we come to another world.

Love is fearless in the midst of the sea of fear.

Anybody can pilot a ship when the sea is calm.

THAT crazed girl improvising her music. Her poetry, dancing upon the shore, Her soul in division from itself Climbing, falling She knew not where, Hiding amid the cargo of a steamship, Her knee-cap broken, that girl I declare A beautiful lofty thing, or a thing Heroically lost, heroically found. No matter what disaster occurred She stood in desperate music wound, Wound, wound, and she made in her triumph Where the bales and the baskets lay No common intelligible sound But sang, 'O sea-starved, hungry sea

The sea is nothing but a library of all the tears in history.

The longest wave is quickly lost in the sea.

I'd like to be in a tiny indie where I'm lost at sea.

Slowly but surely the sea is freezing over.

Ocean is my potion, I need vitamin sea.

It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea.

I won't go back and live in the sea again.

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues

The depths of the sea are only water after all.

The land is dearer for the sea, The ocean for the shore.

It has been said that men carry on a kind of coasting trade with religion. In the voyage of life, they profess to be in search of heaven, but take care not to venture so far in their approximations to it, as entirely to lose sight of the earth; and should their frail vessel be in danger of shipwreck, they will gladly throw their darling vices overboard, as other mariners their treasures, only to fish them up again when the storm is over.

To-morrow we embark upon the boundless sea.

He who commands the sea has command of everything.

Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.

I whisper like the sea in the horse's ear.

I think the concept of the sea is very important.

There are three waies, the Vniversities, the Sea, the Court.

The sea hath fish for every man.

The sea is not rising. It hasn't risen in 50 years.

I love the sea, and I never mind when it's rough.

My logic's been drowned in a sea of emotion.

I grew up sailing in the North Sea.

You can't cross a sea by merely staring into the water.

I was so keen to get back to sea. I was rattled.

The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place.

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

Wine has drowned more than the sea.

We are on the threshold of a sea change in the agency business.

The North Sea can be a pretty violent place.

Sharks are the criminals of the sea. Dolphins are the outlaws.

There is a pleasure unknown to the landsman in reading at sea.

To taste the sea all one needs is one gulp.

He who serves a revolution ploughs a sea.

Barrabas came to us by the sea.

Many corpses will be floating in the sea.

I need the sea because it teaches me

Never travel by sea when you can go by land.

At sea, I feel comfortable and I come to rest.

To take arms against a sea of troubles.

To multiply the harbors does not reduce the sea.

But the sea which no one tends is also a garden

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, That is the sky.

They who plough the sea do not carry the winds in their hands.

The sea isn't a place but a fact, and a mystery.

The sea has neither meaning nor pity.

To be good to the vile is to throw water into the sea.

and the color in my eyes has gone back into the sea.

He is foolish to blame the sea that is shipwrecked twice.