Famous water quotations

   Most of us, I suppose, are a little nervous of the sea. No matter what its smiles may be, we doubt its friendship.  Nice Word by H.M. Tomlinson

   I find myself at the extremity of a long beach. How gladly does the spirit leap forth, and suddenly enlarge its sense of being to the full extent of the broad, blue, sunny deep! A greeting and a homage to the Sea! I descend over its margin, and dip my hand into the wave that meets me, and bathe my brow. That far-resounding roar is the Ocean's voice of welcome. His salt breath brings a blessing along with it.  Meaningful Quotation by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Foot-prints on the Sea-shore

Inspirational Sayings, Motivational Quotes, Great Words, Witty Proverbs
   He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.  Good Quote by George Herbert

   The true peace of God begins at any spot a thousand miles from the nearest land.  Wise Phrase by Joseph Conrad

   Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.  Wise Phrase by Loren Eiseley

   Praise the sea; on shore remain.  Famous Saying by John Florio

   I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it raging and roaring like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free and ending just where it began.  Nice Word by William Hazlitt

   The great sea makes one a great sceptic.  Meaningful Quotation by Richard Jefferies

   The only cure for seasickness is to sit on the shady side of an old brick church in the country.  Good Quote by Author Unknown

   The sea hath no king but God alone.  Wise Phrase by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The White Ship

   The lakes are something which you are unprepared for; they lie up so high, exposed to the light, and the forest is diminished to a fine fringe on their edges, with here and there a blue mountain, like amethyst jewels set around some jewel of the first water, - so anterior, so superior, to all the changes that are to take place on their shores, even now civil and refined, and fair as they can ever be.  Wise Phrase by Henry David Thoreau

   Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go.  Famous Saying by Blaise Pascal

   The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.  Nice Word by Joseph Conrad

   There is indeed, perhaps, no better way to hold communion with the sea than sitting in the sun on the veranda of a fishermen's cafe.  Meaningful Quotation by Joseph W. Beach

   Water flows uphill towards money.  Good Quote by Anonymous, saying in the American West, quoted by Ivan Doig in Marc Reisner, Cadillac Desert, 1986

   I hate water - fish fuck in it.  Wise Phrase by W.C. Fields

   Ocean: A body of water occupying two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.  Wise Phrase by Ambrose Bierce

   We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.  Famous Saying by Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732

   A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable.  Nice Word by William Wordsworth

   There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.  Meaningful Quotation by James Russell Lowell

   A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.  Good Quote by Henry David Thoreau

   The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea.  Wise Phrase by Isak Dinesen

   Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.  Wise Phrase by Robert Henri

   The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out.  Famous Saying by Annie Dillard



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