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

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

Seafarers go to sleep in the evening not knowing whether they will find themselves at the bottom of the sea the next morning.

The sea receives us in a proper way only when we are without clothes.

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.

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

We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea—whether it is to sail or to watch it—we are going back whence we came.

And to our age’s drowsy blood / Still shouts the inspiring sea.

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

He who commands the sea has command of everything.

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.

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

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