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Oar Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the…
- He that floats lazily down the stream, in pursuit of something borne along by the same current, will find himself indeed moved forward; but unless…
- You think I love flattery (says Dr. Johnson), and so I do; but a little too much always disgusts me: that fellow Richardson, on the…
More Oar Quotes
- There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water. — Kate Chopin
- Mankind owns four things that are no good at sea: rudder, anchor, oars and the fear of going down. — Antonio Machado
- I thought when I became a Christian I had nothing to do but just to lay my oars in the bottom of… — Dwight L. Moody
- The oars game me power but also taught me humility. — Barry S. Strauss
- So to the lyre of Orpheus they struck with their oars, The furious water of the sea, and the surge broke into… — Barry S. Strauss
- It is not good to have an oar in everyone's boat. — Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden
- A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them. — Michel de Montaigne
- Prayer and praise are the oars by which a man may row his boat into the deep waters of the knowledge of… — Charles Spurgeon