Sea Quotes - Page 99

Many live in the ivory tower called reality; they never venture on the open sea of thought.

It is a wearisome disease to preserve health by too strict a regimen.

Rather do what is nothing to the purpose than be idle; that the devil may find thee doing. The bird that sits is easily shot, when fliers scape the fowler. Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all the virtues, and the self-made sepulchre of a living man.

The remedy is worse than the disease.

The sea with an end can be Greek or Roman: the endless sea is Portuguese.

Poverty made me feel weak, as if I were coming down with an awful, debilitating, communicable disease - the disease of being without money. Instead of going to the hospital, you went to the poor farm. The difference was, you never got well at the poor farm.

[In Bolivia] We want to overcome our historical problems with Chile. The sea has divided us and the sea must bring us back together again.

Impudence is the worst of all human diseases.

A world where everyone creates content gets confusing pretty quickly without a good search engine.

Any disease could be healed in a matter of days - any disease - if distraction from it could occur and a different vibration dominate.

You did not kill the fish only to keep alive and to sell for food, he thought. You killed him for pride and because you are a fisherman. You loved him when he was alive and you loved him after. If you love him, it is not a sin to kill him. Or is it more?

You are nipping in the bud fancies which I let blossom. The shore is safer, but I love to buffet the sea - I can count the bitter wrecks here in these pleasant waters, and hear the murmuring winds, but oh, I love the danger!

We lived within two hundred yards of the sea, and its voice was in our ears night and day.

Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.

We allowed ourselves to become particularly interested in research into the appearance of intermediate products of sugar decomposition during cell-free fermentation.

[T]he progress of civilization corresponds with the spread of general nausea.

The truth is, fish have very little sex life. If you have ever tried to make love under water, you will know why.

I make it a rule never to weigh or measure a fish I've caught, but simply to estimate its dimensions as accurately as possible, and then, when telling about it, to improve these figures by roughly a fifth, or twenty percent. I do this mainly because most people believe all fishermen exaggerate by at least twenty percent, and so I allow for the discounting my audience is almost certain to apply.

Fishing seems to be the favorite form of loafing.

The disease having been caused by allowing cleverness to displace wisdom, no amount of clever research is likely to produce a cure.

Love the sea? I dote upon it--from the beach.

Do what we will, the Colorado will one day find an unimpeded way to the sea.

My whole family, all they talk about is food and disease. And they're competitive with illness: I have a cold. I wish I had a cold! I don't even have sinuses anymore.

Never before in the history of the modern research university have entire departments and fields been devoted to purely ideological pursuits.

Never to have seen anything but the temperate zone is to have lived on the fringe of the world. Between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Tropic of Cancer live the majority of all the plant species, the vast majority of the insects, most of the strange ... quadrupeds, all of the great and most of the poisonous snakes and large lizards, most of the brilliantly colored sea fishes, and the strangest and most gorgeously plumaged of the birds.