“There’s no point in fighting the tide. It ebbs. It flows. You ride it.”
Karen Marie Moning (1964) author
Source: Iced
“Dwellers by the sea cannot fail to be impressed by the sight of its ceaseless ebb and flow, and are apt, on the principles of that rude philosophy of sympathy and resemblance…to trace a subtle relation, a secret harmony, between its tides and the life of man…The belief that most deaths happen at ebb tide is said to be held along the east coast of England from Northumberland to Kent.”
— James Frazer, book The Golden Bough
Source: The Golden Bough (1890), Chapter 3, Sympathetic Magic.
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "Dwellers by the sea cannot fail to be impressed by the sight of its ceaseless ebb and flow, and are apt, on the princip…" by James Frazer?
James Frazer50
Scottish social anthropologist 1854–1941Related quotes
James Thomson (B.V.) (1834–1882) Scottish writer (1834-1882)
Part XIX
The City of Dreadful Night (1870–74)
“4495. The Ebb will fetch off, what the Tide brings in.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Make haste! The flood-tide of Fortune soon ebbs.”
Pelle moras! Brevis est magni Fortuna favoris.
Book IV, line 732
Punica
“The Duke’s moustache was rising and falling like seaweed on an ebb-tide.”
P.G. Wodehouse book Uncle Fred in the Springtime
Uncle Fred in the Springtime (1939)
Seneca the Younger book Epistulae morales ad Lucilium
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter IV: On the terrors of death
“The sea ebbs and flows, but the rock remains unmoved.”
Robert Murray M'Cheyne (1813–1843) British writer
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 101.
Charles Mackay (1814–1889) British writer
"The Old and the New".
Voices from the Crowd, and Town Lyrics (1857)