Best sea & travel Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“They change their sky, not their mind, who cross the sea. A busy idleness possesses us: we seek a happy life, with ships and carriages: the object of our search is present with us.”

Mind Sea Sky Objects Travel Crosses Busy Ships Happy Life Idleness Carriages

Author:Horace

“In the shortest sea voyage there is no sense of time. You have been down in the cabin for hours or days or years. Nobody knows or cares. You know all the people to the point of indifference. You do not believe in dry land any more - you are caught in the pendulum itself, and left there, idly swinging.”

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“We sack, we ransack to the utmost sands Of native kingdoms, and of foreign lands: We travel sea and soil; we pry, and prowl, We progress, and we prog from pole to pole.”

Progress Sea Land Travel Kingdoms Soil Sand Native Foreign Lands

Book:Emblems: Divine and Moral

Source: Emblems: Divine and Moral

“Rain is my lover, my apple strudel. / It haunts my heels like a pedigreed poodle. / Beyond the seas or across the nation, / It follows me faithful on every vacation.”

Nations Sea Lovers Travel Rain Faithful Apples Vacation Heels Follow Me Poodles My Lover

Author:Phyllis McGinley

“All the earth is seamed with roads, and all the sea is furrowed with the tracks of ships, and over all the roads and all the waters a continuous stream of people passes up and down - traveling, as they say, for their pleasure. What is it, I wonder, that they go out to see?”

People Earth Water Pleasure Wonder Sea Travel Track Ships Streams Up And Down

Book:Safar Nameh: Persian Pictures

Source: Safar Nameh: Persian Pictures

“Never travel by sea when you can go by land.”