It is He who has subdued the ocean so that you may eat of its fresh fish and bring up from its depth ornaments to wear. Behold the ships plowing their course through it. All this, that you may seek His bounty and render thanks.

The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea.

I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.

Alone, alone, all, all alone, / Alone on a wide, wide sea!

The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.

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

He who commands the sea has command of everything.

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

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

The wonderful sea charmed me from the first.

The bathing was so delightful this morning, and Molly so pressing with me to enjoy myself, that I believe I stayed in rather too long, as since the middle of the day I have felt unreasonably tired. I shall be more careful another time, and shall not bathe tomorrow as I had before intended.

Seamen are the nearest to death and the furthest from God.

Why is a ship under sail more poetical than a hog in a high wind? The hog is all nature, the ship is all art.