Best Voyage Sayings
225 Voyage quotes by 173 unique authors
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No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.
— Aphra Behn
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Love is a dangerous thing. It comes in disguise to change our life... Lust is the deceiver. Lust wrenches our lives until nothing matters except…
— Bernard Cornwell
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There is more time than there is expanse of the world and so any voyage at last will end.
— Ivan Doig
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In sex, man is driven into the very abyss which he flees. He makes a voyage to non-being and back.
— Camille Paglia
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If all do not join now to save the good old ship of the Union this voyage nobody will have a chance to pilot her…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure…
— Blaise Pascal
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If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle them, and, as it were, fondle them. Let them fall open where they will.…
— Winston Churchill
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Having undertaken, for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith, and honor of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the…
— William Bradford
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In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people who would shut up the human race upon this globe, we shall one day travel to…
— Jules Verne
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My steamboat voyage to Albany and back, has turned out rather more favorable than I had calculated. The distance from New York to Albany is…
— Robert Fulton
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Writing to me is a voyage, an odyssey, a discovery, because I'm never certain of precisely what I will find.
— Gabriel Fielding
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I define coaching as launching the salesperson on a voyage of discovery by asking questions.
— Chris Lytle
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This is what I like about life at sea. It’s one long voyage of discovery. Solid water! What will they think of next? Hopefully a…
— Gideon Defoe
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There is something about a voyage you are barely aware of while you are making it.
— H. M. Tomlinson
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Man does not drift into goodness...the chance port of an aimless voyage. He must fight ever for his destination.
— William George Jordan
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To be homeward bound, no matter what tragic memories you have harbored, is unlike any voyage a man can ever make.
— Leon Uris
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Every new search is a voyage to the Indies, a quest for buried treasure, a journey to the end of the rainbow; and whether or…
— Vincent Starrett
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Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend…
— Joachim du Bellay
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"Of this voyage, I observe," says the Admiral, "that it has miraculously been shown, as may be understood by this writing, by the many signal…
— Christopher Columbus
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The ship was masted according to the proportion of the navy; but on my application the masts were shortened, as I thought them too much…
— William Bligh
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The preparations for my new voyage prevented the possiblity of my paying that attention to the correction of my errors, that I should otherwise have…
— Zebulon Pike
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Were this world an endless pain, and by sailing eastward we could forever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any…
— Herman Melville
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Once more it was borne in on him that marriage was not the safe anchorage he had been taught to think, but an uncharted voyage…
— Edith Wharton
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To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon where the passengers can make scientific…
— Lee De Forest
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I am bold enough to say that a man-made Moon voyage will never occur regardless of all scientific advances.
— Lee De Forest
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