Reaching The Ocean

There are plenty more fish in the sea. - English Proverb

A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor. - Franklin D Roosevelt

I have always had the sea as my playground. - Alexander D. Oen

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. - Publilius Syrus

Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm. - Publilius Syrus

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us. - Franz Kafka

Who is staring at the sea is already sailing a little. - Paul Carvel

You can't cross the sea merely by staring at the water. - Rabindranath Tagore

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - Albert Einstein

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. - Miguel de Unamuno

The best thing I know between France and England is the sea. - Douglas Jerrold

They who dive in the sea of affliction, bring up rare pearls. - Charles H. Spurgeon

Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish. - Minna Antrim

The magic of Hawaii comes from the stillness, the sea, the stars. - Joanne Harris

Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships. - Zora N Hurston

Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years. - Sheila Ballantyne

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea. - Honore de Balzac

Let me be an ocean and let me kiss you as many times as the ocean kisses the shore. - Debasish Mridha

It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up. - Muhammad Ali

You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. - Christopher Columbus

Like the cosmetics industry, the securities business is engaged in selling illusion. - Paul Samuelson

Politicians who complain about the media are like sailors who complain about the sea. - Enoch Powell

Is this chicken or is this fish? I know it's tuna but it says chicken of the sea. - Jessica Simpson

My wife and I went to a hotel where we got a waterbed. My wife called it the Dead Sea. - Henny Youngman

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure. - Scott Adams

I could never learn to like her, except on a raft at sea with no other provisions in sight. - Mark Twain

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. - Irish Murdoch

Language is our meeting place, the sea we live in…it is the common ground of our humanity. - Toby Wolfe

We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean. - Anna Freud

When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child... eventually. - Steven Wright

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. - John Updike

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist but you have ceased to live. - Mark Twain

How do we persevere when we're adrift at sea, severed from wherever or whomever is our 'home'? - Lois Anderson

Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn't happen. - Steven Wright

The Duchess smashed the bottle against the bow and amid the applause of the crowd she slid on her greasy bottom into the sea. - Unknown

It's better to swim in the sea below
Than to swing in the air and feed the crow,
Says jolly Ned Teach of Bristol. - Benjamin Franklin

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election. - Bill Vaughan

The trout enjoys the river,
The whale enjoys the sea,
And dogs love most an old lamp-post,
But you're my cup of tea. - W H Auden

Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need. - Tom Robbins

I'll paddle board, swim in the ocean, roll in the sand, soak up the sun, eat good food, be with friends and family and go fishing with my dad. - Behati Prinsloo