Famous Quotes & Sayings

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...

Huey Newton

To die for the racists is lighter than a feather, but to die for the people is heavier than any mountain and deeper than any sea.

Horace

He who studies to imitate the poet Pindar, O Julius, relies on artificial wings fastened on with wax, and is sure to give his name to a glassy sea.

Horace

Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt. (They change their sky, not their soul, who rush across the sea.)

Friedrich Nietzsche

Alas, where is there still a sea in which one could drown: thus our lament resounds – across shallow swamps.

Friedrich Nietzsche

From the sun did I learn this, when it goeth down, the exuberant one: gold doth it then pour into the sea, out of inexhaustible riches, -So that the poorest fisherman roweth even with golden oars! For this did I once see, and did not tire of weeping in beholding it. - Like the sun will also Zarathustra go down: now sitteth he here and waiteth, old broken tables around him, and also new tables half-written.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Like the creatures of the forest and the sea, I love To lose myself for a while...

George Bernard Shaw

Consciousness of a fact is not knowing it: if it were, the fish would know more of the sea than the geographers and the naturalists.

Fred Brooks

An ancient adage warns, "Never go to sea with two chronometers; take one or three.

Franz Kafka

I no longer know If I wish to drown myself in love, vodka or the sea.

Making comparisons can spoil your happiness.

Happiness often comes when least expected.

George Herbert

He complaines wrongfully on the sea that twice suffers shipwrack.

George Herbert

God strikes not with both hands, for to the sea he made heavens, and to rivers foords.

Christopher Columbus

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

Christina Rossetti

O Lord, I cannot plead my love of Thee: I plead Thy love of me: - the shallow conduit hails the unfathomed sea.

Chris Pratt

I have a pet lizard named Puff, five goldfish - named Pinky, Brain, Jowels, Pearl and Sandy, an oscar fish named Chef, two pacus, an albino African frog named Whitey, a bonsai tree, four Venus flytraps, a fruit fly farm and sea monkeys.

George R. R. Martin

The sea is never weary. I must be as tireless.

Fernando Pessoa

God gave the sea the danger and the abyss, but it was in it that He mirrored the sky.

Fernando Pessoa

The sea with an end can be Greek or Roman: the endless sea is Portuguese.

Fernando Pessoa

Oh salty sea, how much of your salt Is tears from Portugal?

Fernando Pessoa

It's in an inland sea that the river of my life ended.

Ezra Pound

Your mind and you are our Sargasso Sea.

Francis Drake

It isn't that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better.

Jose Guillen

I'm pretty sure if we lost, the season was done.

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.