Sea Quotes

The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze. (Livy)
Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually. View quote
Jimi Hendrix
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. View quote
Publilius Syrus
A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us. View quote
Franz Kafka
We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds. View quote
Aristotle Onassis
The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee. View quote
John Donne
When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea. View quote
Eric Cantona
The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea. View quote
Karen Blixen
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea. View quote
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea. (Vladimir Nabokov)
People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
Wine hath drowned more men than the sea. View quote
Thomas Fuller
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. View quote
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics. View quote
Earl Warren
From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no man lives forever, That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea. View quote
Algernon Charles Swinburne
In a calm sea every man is a pilot. View quote
John Ray
He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all. View quote
William Osler
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. View quote
Francis Bacon
There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates. View quote
James Russell Lowell
Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be. (Horatio Nelson)
Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part. View quote
Hermann Broch
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. View quote
John Updike
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Is this chicken, what I have, or is this fish? I know it's tuna, but it... it says "Chicken... by the Sea." View quote
Jessica Simpson