The rational mind of man is a shallow thing, a shore upon a continent of the irrational, wherein thin colonies of reason have settled amid a savage world.
Wilford O. Cross

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.
Cyril Connolly

The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.
Samuel Smiles

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
George Byron

There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.
Steven Wright

To die is landing on some distant shore.
John Dryden

To him it is an ocean, unfathomable, and without a shore.
William Godwin

We have to shore this thing up like a New Orleans levy.
Richard Carlson

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.
John Archibald Wheeler

We made part of the record in Miami, and I would go down to the beach, and not 20 feet from the water I see a fish that is at least seven feet long swimming close to the shore. I did not go back in the ocean the entire month.
Michael Stipe

When I sell liquor, it's called bootlegging; when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive, it's called hospitality.
Al Capone

Wind to a sailor is what money is to life on shore.
Sterling Hayden

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
John Updike