In one drop of water are found all the secrets of the oceans. – Khalil Gibran
If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water. – Loren Eiseley
Long before we saw the sea, its spray was on our lips, and showered salt rain upon us. – Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think. – Robert Henri
Life is like sea-water; it never gets quite sweet until it is drawn up into heaven. – J.P. Richter
How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is clearly Ocean. – Arthur C. Clarke
Keep your feet on the deck, your hands on the tiller, your eyes on the horizon and your beer in the fridge! – B.E.Marshall
There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates. – James Russell Lowell
I spin on the circle of wave upon wave of the sea. – Pablo Neruda
The sea is as near as we come to another world. – Anne Stevenson, “North Sea Off Carnoustie”
There is indeed, perhaps, no better way to hold communion with the sea than sitting in the sun on the veranda of a fishermen’s cafe. – Joseph W. Beach
I have seen the sea when it is strormy and wild; when it is quiet and serene; when it is dark and moody. And in all its moods, I see myself. – Martin D. Buxbaum (1912–1991), in Table Talk
He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea. – George Herbert
The more simply Life is supported, and the less Stimulus we use, the better — and Happy are the Young and Healthy who are wise enough to be convinced that Water is the best drink, and Salt the best sauce. – William Kitchiner (1775–1827), “Wine,” The Art of Invigorating and Prolong
The sea hath no king but God alone. – Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The White Ship
Upon my soul, this water tastes quite nice. I wonder what vintage now?… It tastes just like the year 1881 tasted. – G.K. Chesterton, The Flying Inn, 1914
Thousands have lived without love, not one without water. – W. H. Auden
When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that has not been filtered through either the berry of a grape, or else a tub of malt. These are the most reliable filters yet invented. – Samuel Butler
Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink. Water, water everywhere, Nor any drop to drink. The very deep did rot: O Christ! That ever this should be! Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control over the uncontrollable. A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye. – Joan Didion
