Quote by Samuel Johnson
When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land

When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land. – Samuel Johnson

Other quotes by Samuel Johnson

My diseases are an asthma and a dropsy and, what is less curable, seventy-five. – Samuel Johnson

Category:
Age
Read Quote

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you havent courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others. – Samuel Johnson

Category:
Courage
Read Quote

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil. – Samuel Johnson

Category:
great
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Oceans
category

The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it… Beware of me, it says, but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Category:
Oceans

I must go down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide
Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied;
And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying,
And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying. – John Edward Masefield

Category:
Oceans

There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the abyss, that does not know and respond to the mysterious forces that create the tide. – Rachel Carson

Category:
Oceans

Wide sea, that one continuous murmur breeds along the pebbled shore of memory! – John Keats

Category:
Oceans

Random Quotes

Im on VH1 now, will be working on ITVs This Morning again from September. – Lisa Snowdon

Category:
Morning

I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it. – Edward Hopper

Category:
Trust

I am at home in many cultures. I live actively in three continents and Ive done that for most of my life, so I just make films as I see the world, and that happens to speak to people. I do things that I want to do. – Mira Nair

Category:
Home

Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities. – Sugar Ray Leonard

Category:
Dreams