Famous Quotes & Sayings

Herman Melville

The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul.

Herman Melville

Implacable I, the implacable Sea; Implacable most when most I smile serene- Pleased, not appeased, by myriad wrecks in me.

Herman Melville

You must have plenty of sea-room to tell the truth in.

Herman Melville

There is no life in thee, now, except that rocking life imparted by a gently rolling ship; by her, borrowed from the sea; by the sea, from the inscrutable tides of God.

Henry David Thoreau

I thought, as I have my living to get, and have not eaten today, that I might go a- fishing. That's the true industry for poets. It is the only trade I have learned.

Henry David Thoreau

Who hears the fishes when they cry?

Henry David Thoreau

Do you know how the naturalist learns all the secrets of the forest, of plants, of birds, of beasts, of reptiles, of fishes, of the rivers and the sea? When he goes into the woods the birds fly before him and he finds none; when he goes to the river bank, the fish and the reptile swim away and leave him alone. His secret is patience; he sits down, and sits still; he is a statue; he is a log.

Henry David Thoreau

Frequently also some fair-weather finery ripped off a vessel by a storm near the coast was nailed up against an outhouse. I saw fastened to a shed near the lighthouse a long new sign with the words "ANGLO SAXON" on it in large gilt letters, as if it were a useless part which the ship could afford to lose, or which the sailors had discharged at the same time with the pilot. But it interested somewhat as if it had been a part of the Argo, clipped off in passing through the Symplegades.

James Gleick

Life sucks order from a sea of disorder.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Shall we mourn here deedless forever a shadow-folk mist-haunting dropping vain tears in the thankless sea

Izaak Walton

An excellent angler, and now with God.

Izaak Walton

If all the theories were correct, there wouldn't be a fish left in all of our lakes and rivers and streams.

Izaak Walton

You cannot lose what you never had.

Isaac Asimov

Life originated in the sea, and about eighty percent of it is still there.

Isaac Asimov

When asked for advice by beginners. Know your ending, I say, or the river of your story may finally sink into the desert sands and never reach the sea.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Virtues lose themselves in self-interest, as rivers in the sea.

Horatio Nelson

In Sea affairs, nothing is impossible, and nothing is improbable.

Herbert Hoover

Fishing is more than fish; it is the vitalizing lure to outdoor life.

Eugene Field

I never lost a little fish - Yes, I'm free to say. It always was the biggest fish I caught, that got away.

Ernest Hemingway

The house was built on the highest part of the narrow tongue of land between the harbor and the open sea. It had lasted through three hurricanes and it was built solid as a ship.

Ernest Hemingway

Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish.

Ernest Hemingway

Before we take to the sea, we walk on land. . . Before we create, we must understand. . .

Ernest Hemingway

Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.

Ernest Hemingway

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

Ernest Hollings

Everybody likes to go to Geneva. I used to do it for the Law of the Sea conferences and you'd find these potentates from down in Africa, you know, rather than eating each other, they'd just come up and get a good square meal in Geneva.

Ernest Istook

Instead of this confusion, we need the unifying force of an official language, English, which is the language of success in America.

Florence Scovel Shinn

One's ships come in over a calm sea.

Herbert Hoover

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

Henny Youngman

My wife and I went to a hotel where we got a waterbed. My wife called it the Dead Sea.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

Perhaps the time has come to formulate a moral code which would govern our relations with the great creatures of the sea as well as with those on dry land. That this will come to pass is my dear wish.

Jackson Browne

Rock me on the water Sister will you soothe my fevered brow Rock me on the water I'll get down to the sea somehow

Christopher Lasch

Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion.

Christopher Isherwood

The sea only drowns its lovers.