Sea Quotes

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
Honore de Balzac

Woman, She, Face

We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came.
John F. Kennedy

Ocean, Whether, Watch

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Khalil Gibran

Love, Moving, Another

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.
William Shakespeare

Life, Men, Lose

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.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Work, Long, Rather

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
Thomas Jefferson

Men, Liberty, Calm

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
William Shakespeare

Great, Men, Live

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
Thomas Jefferson

Liberty, Wave, Boisterous

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Khalil Gibran

Love, Moving, Another

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.
Saint Augustine

Men, Long, Stars

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
Khalil Gibran

Life, Death, River

Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually.
Jimi Hendrix

Made, Fall, Eventually

As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God.
Swami Vivekananda

God, Different, Though

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.
Aristotle Onassis

Hope, Free, Learn

What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.
Joseph Campbell

Life, Experience, Else

When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.
Eric Cantona

It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.
Hunter S. Thompson

Food, Law, Said

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.
Chanakya

Wise, Give, Others

The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

Once, Wonder, Forever

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.
Rabindranath Tagore

Great, Truth, Silence

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
Vincent Van Gogh

Storm, Reason, Dangerous

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Character, Fire, Down

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
John Lubbock

Learn, Earth, Books

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
Rabindranath Tagore

Water, Standing, Cross

When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.
George Burns

Sick, Dead, Boy

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Waiting, Lie, Gift

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.
Victor Hugo

Soul, Sky, Interior

The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Lost, Virtues, Rivers

The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.
Isak Dinesen

Water, Tears, Sweat

The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
Victor Hugo

Men, Human, Destroy

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