We must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
…I noticed a woman whose face was a sea voyage I had not the courage to attempt. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
There is a time in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Curiosity is only in vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I suppose we shall soon travel by air-vessels; make air instead of sea voyages; and at length find our way to the… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
I must down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life, To the gull's way and the whale's way where the… — John Masefield Copy Share Image
If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We have found that morals are not, like bacon, to be cured by hanging; nor, like wine, to be improved by sea… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“How can you accuse me of cheating on you—just because you’ve come home from a two-year sea voyage and I’m pregnant? It… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
“Florida sea captains might place a pineapple at the front door of their house to let everyone know that they had returned… — James Kaserman Copy Share Image
The planning stage of a cruise is often just as enjoyable as the voyage itself, letting one's imagination loose on all kinds… — Jimmy Cornell Copy Share Image
“During the long sea voyage from Manila to San Francisco, doctors discovered that Taft’s incision was not healing properly. It was “opened… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“There is a splendid story that, during the long sea voyage, Cowdrey was observed by Frank Tyson being addressed with some passion… — Dave Wilson Copy Share Image
Jungians such as Joseph Campbell have generalised such journeys into a set of archetypal events and images. Though they can be useful… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Why did the poor poet of Tennessee, upon suddenly receiving two handfuls of silver, deliberate whether to buy him a coat, which… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“John Donne's 'A Valediction: forbidding mourning' concerns a sea voyage, and uses the image of a circle as an antidote to the… — Jeremy Holmes Copy Share Image
In the shortest sea voyage there is no sense of time. You have been down in the cabin for hours or days… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, on days when the weather was beyond redemption, mere residence in the house, situated in the midst of a steady and… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“But a wide sea voyage severs us at once. It makes us conscious of being cast loose from the secure anchorage of… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
“Why is almost every robust healthy boy with a robust healthy soul in him, at some time or other crazy to go… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“When, on a sea voyage, the ship is brought to anchor, you go out to fetch water and gather a few roots… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“Pascal, in one of his gloomier pensées, gave it as his opinion that all our miseries stemmed from a single cause: our… — Bruce Chatwin Copy Share Image
“The Mayflower sped across the white-tipped waves once the voyage was under way, and the passengers were quickly afflicted with seasickness. The… — Tony Williams Copy Share Image
Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of 'creature comforts,' a sea-voyage would be delightful. — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
To one given to day-dreaming, and fond of losing himself in reveries, a sea-voyage is full of subjects for meditation; but then… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
You know, when one's in love,' I said, 'and things go all wrong, one's terribly unhappy and one thinks one won't ever… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Very convenient. Anything else?’ ‘Not really. I’m sure, for instance, that you haven’t the slightest interest in a Berger International flight into… — Jack Higgins Copy Share Image
