I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.

Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.

The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.

There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.

Virtue is the truest nobility.

To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.

Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.

Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.

A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.

Man appoints, and God disappoints.

Tis a dainty thing to command, though twere but a flock of sheep.

One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Good actions ennoble us and we are the sons of our deeds.

No aquarium, no tank in a marine land, however spacious it may be, can begin to duplicate the conditions of the sea. And no dolphin who inhabits one of those aquariums or one of those marine lands can be considered normal.

I wrote The Same Sea not as a political allegory about Israelis and Palestinians. I wrote it about something much more gutsy and immediate. I wrote it as a piece of chamber music.

That the sea is one of the most beautiful and magnificent sights in Nature, all admit.

Is this chicken, what I have, or is this fish? I know it's tuna, but it says 'Chicken of the Sea.'

One of the unique things is that whether we were out at sea or in the middle of the water tank, a lot of times you just couldn't leave. Especially when we were out at sea.

I grew up in Newquay, on the Atlantic coast and there developed a love of the sea and boats.

On the other hand, if there's an underlying core of poetry that I go to, I go to the sea. I've lived on the sea all my life. I live on the sea in Cape Breton.

The bottom of the sea is cruel.

I've never been hurt by a sea creature, except for jellyfish and sea urchins.

The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.

It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner.

All handling by IPCC of the Sea Level questions have been done in a way that cannot be accepted and that certainly not concur with modern knowledge of the mode and mechanism of sea level changes.

The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety.

The Baltic Sea is becoming more and more polluted. Not everybody living near the shore of the Baltic Sea is protecting it. It is the water of life for countries like Finland and Sweden.

For fear of dropping the troops in the sea, the pilots tended to drop them too far inland - some of them actually in the British lines. The weapon containers often fell wide of the troops, which was another handicap that contributed to our excessive casualties.

I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.

I'm just a simple guy swimming in a sea of sharks.

Direct access to sea is an essential part of foreign policy.

I think it was lucky that during most of the work on the Odyssey I lived on Homer's sea in houses that were, in one case, shaken by the impact of the Mediterranean winter storms on the rocks below.

All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full.

Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.

As soon as the news of the Cabot voyages reached the King of Portugal he arranged to send an expedition of discovery to the far north-west, perhaps to find a northern sea route to Eastern Asia.

I still love to walk in the mountains or be on the sea. I like to be in nature. Sometimes I bicycle. It's important to feel good with your body. The body is extremely important. If you feel good, you have more energy in your singing.

Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

Throughout the ages, stories with certain basic themes have recurred over and over, in widely disparate cultures; emerging like the goddess Venus from the sea of our unconscious.

The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.

It was really cool going to Sea World. We had an amazing time. They were amazing to us. We got to swim with the dolphins, and it was really special.