Quotes with sea-margins

Quotes 161 till 165 of 165.

• You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens and crowned with the stars.

  ― Thomas Traherne
  British Clergyman, Poet, Mystic (1636 - 1674)
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• Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.

  ― Thomas Fuller
  English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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• 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
  French writer (1900 - 1944)
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• Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

  ― Thomas Fuller
  English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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• What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

  ― David Lloyd George
  Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1922 (1863 - 1945)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• broadsides
• politics
• heavens
• crowned
• nothing
• furious

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