The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A poem is an invitation to a voyage. As in life, we travel to see fresh sights. — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
What Flaubert refers to as the “mélancholies du voyage” is like the sadness I feel as one season departs and another arrives. — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
If all do not join now to save the good old ship of the Union this voyage nobody will have a chance… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
When a man has no longer any conception of excellence above his own, his voyage is done, he is dead,--dead in trespasses… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Politics is not like an ocean voyage or a military campaign... something which leaves off as soon as reached. It is not… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
The preparations for my new voyage prevented the possiblity of my paying that attention to the correction of my errors, that I… — Zebulon Pike Copy Share Image
It is not wise for a man who can get seasick in a rowboat on a mill-pond to attack a Japanese dinner… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Many a green isle needs must be In the deep wide sea of Misery, Or the mariner, worn and wan, Never thus… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The man who voyages strange seas must of necessity be a little unsure of himself. It is the man with the flashy… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
Shortly after Christopher Columbus and his sailors returned from their voyage to the New World, a horrifying new disease began to make… — Peter Lewis Allen Copy Share Image
Monsieur Franqulin, inventor of electricity. This illustrious savant, after having made several voyages around the world, died on the Sandwich Islands and… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Man ever is and always shall be blessed; for he loves, and love is an onward current that never ebbs; and borne… — Frank C. Lockwood Copy Share Image
I dreamed of Crusades, voyages of discovery that nobody had heard of, republics without histories, religious wars stamped out, revolutions in morals,… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
Touch and away, Jack?’ asked Stephen. ‘Touch and away? Do you not recall that I have important business there? Enquiries of the… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
Now the melancholy of God protect thee, and the tailor make thy doublet of changable taffata, for thy mind is a very… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Never fear dying, beloved. Dying is the last, but the least matter that a Christian has to be anxious about. Fear living...that… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Borges said there are only four stories to tell: a love story between two people, a love story between three people, the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It has always been my belief that the true artist, like the true scientist, is a researcher using materials and techniques to… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
I am an obscure and patient pearl-fisherman who dives into the deepest waters and comes up with empty hands and a blue… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Sometimes, they wait. Sometimes, you see the dead come in to the harbor, and their old dogs are all along the docks,… — Douglas Clegg Copy Share Image
I come from a school of people, folk singers, and the tradition there is troubadours, and you're carrying a message. Admittedly, our… — David Crosby Copy Share Image
It has been said that men carry on a kind of coasting trade with religion. In the voyage of life, they profess… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“In any age, there is no shortage of people willing to embark on a hazardous adventure. Columbus and Magellan filled eight ships… — Peter Nichols Copy Share Image
If I had been downright honest with myself, I would have seen very plainly in my heart that I did but half… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
My steamboat voyage to Albany and back, has turned out rather more favorable than I had calculated. The distance from New York… — Robert Fulton Copy Share Image
The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I wanted to create a voyage to the moon just for her, but what I should have given her was a real… — Mathias Malzieu Copy Share Image
If we persist in our restless desire to know everything about the universe and ourselves, then we must not be afraid of… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
Oh build your ship of death. Oh build it! For you will need it. For the voyage of oblivion awaits you. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. The glory of great men… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Faith is not an easy virtue; but, in the broad world of a person's total voyage through time to eternity, faith is… — Theodore Hesburgh Copy Share Image
In sex, man is driven into the very abyss which he flees. He makes a voyage to non-being and back. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
For me... it was always about the challenge of making this voyage... It was always a calculated risk, but life is a… — Jessica Watson Copy Share Image
One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
To be homeward bound, no matter what tragic memories you have harbored, is unlike any voyage a man can ever make. — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
The great adventures which our opponents offer is a voyage into the past. Progress is our heritage, not theirs. What is right… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
“A person does not grow from the ground like a vine or a tree, one is not part of a plot of… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Once more it was borne in on him that marriage was not the safe anchorage he had been taught to think, but… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
