“Theres so many fish in the sea
That only rise up in the sweat and smoke like mercury”
Elvis Costello (1954) English singer-songwriter
Accidents Will Happen
Song lyrics, Armed Forces (1979)
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ancient Greek philosopher -490–-430 BCRelated quotes
Karen Blixen (1885–1962) Danish writer
As quoted in Reader's Digest (April 1964)
Variant: I know a cure for everything. Salt water … in one form or another, sweat, tears or the salt sea.
Variant: The cure for anything is salt water — sweat, tears, or the sea.
“They say the Deity
Is mix'd through Earth, the Sea, and lofty Skie.”
John Ogilby (1600–1676) Scottish academic
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Georgicks
Anacreon (-570–-485 BC) Greek lyric poet, notable for his drinking songs and hymns
Variant: Fruitful earth drinks up the rain, Trees from earth drink that again; The sea too drinks the air, the sun Drinks the sea, and him the moon. Is it reason, then, do ye think, That I should thirst when all else drink?
Source: Odes, 21.
“All earth’s full rivers can not fill
The sea that drinking thirsteth still.”
Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) English poet
By the Sea; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919); Old and New, Volume 5 (1872), p. 169.
“Sky and sea, keep harm from me. Earth and fire, bring… my desire.”
L.J. Smith (1965) American author
Source: The Initiation / The Captive Part I
“Here in a little lonely room
I am master of earth and sea,
And the planets come to me.”
Arthur Symons (1865–1945) British poet
The Loom of Dreams, st. 1 (1900).