Best sea & oar Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“We cannot be satisfied with things as they are. We cannot be satisfied to drift, to rest on our oars, to glide over a sea whose depths are shaken by subterranean upheavals.”

Sea Depth Satisfaction Satisfied Upheaval Oar

Author:John F. Kennedy

“From the Sun I learned this: when he goes down, overrich; he pours gold into the sea out of inexhaustible riches, so that even the poorest fisherman still rows with golden oars. For this I once saw and I did not tire of my tears as I watched it.”

Stills Compassion Sun Saws Sea Tears Gold Riches Golden Tire Poorest Fisherman Oar

Book:The Portable Nietzsche

Source: The Portable Nietzsche

“The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish Cut with her golden oars the silver stream And greedily devour the treacherous bait.”

Cutting Sea Rivers Fishes Golden Boat Streams Pleasant Lakes Fishing Silver Bait Treacherous Angling Oar

Book:The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings

Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings

“He knows enough, the mariner, who knows Where lurk the shelves, and where the whirlpools boil, What signs portend the storm: to subtler minds He leaves to scan, from what mysterious cause Charybdis rages in the Ionian wave; Whence those impetuous currents in the main Which neither oar nor sail can stem; and why The roughening deep expects the storm, as sure As red Orion mounts the shrouded heaven.”

Source: The Poetical Works of Armstrong, Dyer, and Green: With Memoirs, and Critical Dissertations

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