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.

Ocean. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man—who has no gills.

The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea.

A fair complexion is unbecoming to a sailor: he ought to be swarthy from the waters of the sea and the rays of the sun.

Being thus arrived in good harbor, and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of heaven who had brought them over the vast and furious ocean and delivered them from all the perils and miseries thereof, again to set their feet on the firm and stale earth, their proper element.

You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens, and crowned with the stars.

We are as near to heaven by sea as by land!

He who commands the sea has command of everything.

The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.

All streams run to the sea, but the sea is not full.

The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.

The life of a sailor is very unhealthy.