Many, many steeples would have to be stacked one on top of another to reach from the bottom to the surface of the sea. It is down there that the sea folk live.

Ashore it’s wine, women, and song; aboard it’s rum, bum, and concertina.

Take back your golden fiddles, and we’ll beat to open sea.

The legislator is like the navigator of a ship on the high seas. He can steer the vessel on which he sails, but he cannot alter its construction, raise the wind, or stop the waves from swelling beneath his feet.

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

The sole business of a seaman onshore who has to go to sea again is to take as much pleasure as he can.

The sea yields action to the body, meditation to the mind, the world to the world, all parts thereof to each part, by this art of arts—navigation.

He that commands the sea is at great liberty and may take as much and as little of the war as he will.

The sea hath no king but God alone.

Never trust her at any time when the calm sea shows her false alluring smile.

The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.

I’ve been bathing in the poem / Of star-infused and milky sea / Devouring the azure greens.