“ A monarchy is a merchantman, which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock and go to the bottom, whilst a republic is a raft which will never sink, but then your feet are always in water. ”
- Fisher Ames- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafairing soul, if either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas. For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. ”
- Khalil Gibran- Copy
- 685
“ To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes- Copy
- 1.7K
“ The power of philosophy floats through my head, light like a feather, heavy as lead. ”
- Bob Marley- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Life is a tide; float on it. Go down with it and go up with it, but be detached. Then it is not difficult. ”
- Prem Rawal- Copy
- 3.6K
“ If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim. ”
- Margaret Thatcher- Copy
- 4K
“ To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes- Copy
- 2.7K
“ Old Hollywood is just like a desert water in Africa. Hang around long enough and every kind of animal in the world will drift in for refreshments. ”
- Will Rogers- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Dignity does not float down from heaven it cannot be purchased nor manufactured. It is a reward reserved for those who labor with diligence. ”
- Bill Hybels- Copy
- 387
“ Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it — but sail we must and not drift, nor lie at anchor. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes- Copy
- 1.8K
“ Feeling is deep and still; and the word that floats on the surface Is as the tossing buoy, that betrays where the anchor is hidden. ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
- 1.5K
“ One ship sails east, and another sails west, By the self same winds that blow; 'Tis the set of the sails, and not the gales, That determines the way they go. ”
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox- Copy
- 1K
“ To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift. ”
- Franklin D. Roosevelt- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Then it looked like he swam off in the other direction and I figured everything was okay because he was a good swimmer. ”
- David Smith- Copy
- 429
“ There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters. ”
- Natalie Clifford Barney- Copy
- 516
“ Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
- 2.1K
“ I'd been busy, busy, so busy, preparing for life, while life floated by me, quiet and swift as a regatta. ”
- Lorene Cary- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream. ”
- W. C. Fields- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time. ”
- Sir John Lubbock- Copy
- 395
“ Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding. ”
- John Locke- Copy
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“ Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top. ”
- Edward Abbey- Copy
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