Lib Quotes
  • Authors
  • Topics
  • Lists
  • Pictures
  • Resources
  • More about Joshua Slocum

Joshua Slocum - Sea Quotes

6 Sourced Quotes

View all Joshua Slocum Quotes
    • Source
    • Report...
I once knew a writer who, after saying beautiful things about the sea, passed through a Pacific hurricane, and he became a changed man.

Joshua Slocum
    • Source
    • Report...
On this day there was soon wind enough and to spare. The same might have been said of the sea. The Spray was in the midst of the turbulent Gulf Stream itself. She was jumping like a porpoise over the uneasy waves

Joshua Slocum
    • Source
    • Report...
To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go. The tales of rough usage are for the most part exaggerations, as also are the tales of sea danger. To face the elements is, to be sure, no light matter when the sea is in its grandest mood. You must then know the sea, and know that you know it, and not forget that it was made to be sailed over.

Joshua Slocum
    • Source
    • Report...
I was born in the breezes, and I had studied the sea as perhaps few men have studied it, neglecting all else.

Joshua Slocum
    • Source
    • Report...
But where, after all, would be the poetry of the sea were there no wild waves?

Joshua Slocum
    • Source
    • Report...
If the Spray discovered no continents on her voyage, it may be that there were no more continents to be discovered. She did not seek new worlds, or sail to pow-wow about the dangers of the sea.

Joshua Slocum

Quote of the day

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
George Santayana

Joshua Slocum

Joshua Slocum
Creative Commons

Born: February 20, 1844
Died: November 14, 1909 (aged 65)
More about Joshua Slocum...

Featured Authors

Bill GatesPablo NerudaHelen KellerRay BradburyMalala YousafzaiAnne FrankEva PerónRabindranath TagoreArthur Conan DoyleMarco PoloDr. SeussJohann Sebastian Bach

Lists

Predictions that didn't happen

Predictions that didn't happen

If it's on the Internet it must be true

If it's on the Internet it must be true

Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)

Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)

Picture Quotes

If you see what is right and fail to act on it, you lack courage.

Confucius

I have a heart with room for every joy.

Philip James Bailey

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive.

Eleanor Roosevelt

A great change in life is like a cold bath in winter — we all hesitate at the first plunge.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Popular Topics

  • life
  • love
  • nature
  • time
  • god
  • power
  • human
  • mind
  • work
  • art
  • heart
  • thought
  • men
  • day
Lib Quotes

100% Sourced Quotes.

Our motto is: Don't quote it if you can't source it.

Contact us

Social Media

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • X (Twitter)
  • Pinterest

Recent

Predictions that didn't happen

If it's on the Internet it must be true

Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)

Subscribe to our Newsletter:
Quote of the Day
JS and WordPress
Subscribe
to RSS Feeds
© 2017-2025 LibQuotes
Terms of Use / Privacy Policy / About Us

Lib Quotes