Low stir of leaves and dip of oars And lapsing waves on…

But oars alone can ne'er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is…

— William Cowper

From the Sun I learned this: when he goes down, overrich; he pours gold into the sea out of inexhaustible riches, so that even…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Oh swiftly glides the bonnie boat, Just parted from the shore, And to the fisher's chorus-note Soft moves the dipping oar.

— Joanna Baillie

If any pale student, glued to his desk, here seek an apology for a way of life whose natural fruits is that pallid and…

— Francis Parkman

Quorum and group leaders should provide the leading voice and laboring oar in every ward and branch council regarding retention of converts.

— D. Todd Christofferson

Mental purity will come through constant chanting of the divine name. This is the simplest way. You are trying to cross the ocean of…

— Mata Amritanandamayi

The judgment is an utensil proper for all subjects, and will have an oar in everything.

— Michel de Montaigne

He knows enough, the mariner, who knows Where lurk the shelves, and where the whirlpools boil, What signs portend the storm: to subtler minds…

— John Armstrong

In any case, his religious teaching consisted mostly in more or less vague ethical remarks, an obscure mixture of ideals of English gentlemanliness and…

— Thomas Merton

The Greek in me wanted to know what it felt like to pull an oar. The intellectual wondered about how to get eight individuals…

— Barry S. Strauss

Never rest on your oars as a boss. If you do, the whole company starts sinking.

— Lee Iacocca

To follow the drops sliding from a lifting oar, Head up, while the rower breathes, and the small boat drifts quietly shoreward...

— Theodore Roethke

All in the golden afternoon Full leisurely we glide; For both our oars, with little skill, By little arms are plied, While little hands…

— Lewis Carroll

The masses do not see the Sirens. They do not hear songs in the air. Blind, deaf, stooping, they pull at their oars in…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

To hear the faint sound of oars in the silence as a rowboat comes slowly out and then goes back is truly worth all…

— Jack Gilbert