1,231 Quotes About Sea

Lampis, the sea commander, being asked how he got his wealth, answered, "My greatest estate I gained easily enough, but the smaller slowly and with much labour.

Fishing is not like billiards, in which it is possible to attain a disgusting perfection.

...next to the pleasure of reading a favourite fishing book comes that of persuading a friend to read it too.

Good fishermen know that in talking about fishing, nothing is more interesting than the truth.

There are two distinct visits to tackle-shops, the visit to buy tackle and the visit which may be described as Platonic when, being for some reason unable to fish, we look for an excuse to go in, and waste the tackle dealer's time.

Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea

It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense,/ That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.

Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.

Margaret Kochamma's tiny, ordered life relinquished itself to this truly baroque bedlam with the quiet gasp of a warm body entering a chilly sea.