Seas And Greetings

Up the creek in a boat with a hole. - Archie Bunker

He lights up a room when he leaves it. - Henny Youngman

There are plenty more fish in the sea. - English Proverb

Nodding the head does not row the boat. - Unknown

If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it. - Jonathan Winters

Trade unions are islands of anarchy in a sea of chaos. - Aneurin Bevan

Who is staring at the sea is already sailing a little. - Paul Carvel

My best birth control now is just to leave the lights on. - Joan Rivers

The best thing I know between France and England is the sea. - Douglas Jerrold

The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears or the sea. - Isak Dinesen

Day and night, their frail and crippled ships defy the tempest. - Jorge Luis Borges

I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship. - Louisa May Alcott

Sharks are the lions of the sea. They glamorize the oceanic glory. - Munia Khan

Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships. - Zora N Hurston

An entire ocean can't sink a ship unless it allows the water inside. - Donna Smith

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now. - Martin Luther King Jr.

Life is like stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink. - Shunryi Suzuki-roshi

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast. - Charles Dickens

Perspective is to painting what the bridle is to the horse, the rudder to a ship. - Leonardo da Vinci

If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on. - Sheryl Sandberg

Aren't we forgetting the true meaning of Christmas? You know, the birth of Santa. - Bart Simpson

If 'ifs and buts' were 'candy and nuts', we'd have Christmas every day. - Unknown

When I was a child, I wanted to raise horses in Wyoming or be a cabin boy on a pirate ship. - Sadie Jones

No one would have ever crossed the ocean if they could have gotten off the ship in the storm. - Charles F. Ketterling

Language is our meeting place, the sea we live in... it is the common ground of our humanity. - Toby Wolfe

I still have my Christmas Tree. I looked at it today. Sure enough, I couldn't see any forests. - Steven Wright

To say my fate is not tied to your fate is like saying, "Your end of the boat is sinking." - Hugh Downs

The Christmas season has come to mean the period when the public plays Santa Claus to the merchants. - John Andrew Holmes

How do we persevere when we're adrift at sea, severed from wherever or whomever is our 'home'? - Lois Anderson

Demagogue: A politician who can rock the boat and persuade everyone else that they're in a terrible storm - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

The gospel is for lifeboats, not showboats, and a man must make up his mind which boat he is going to operate. - Vance Havner

I gave my young nephew a book for Christmas. He's spent six months looking for where to put the batteries. - Milton Berle

A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together. - Garrison Keillor

It's better to swim in the sea below
Than to swing in the air and feed the crow,
Says jolly Ned Teach of Bristol. - Benjamin Franklin

God moves in a mysterious way
His wonders to perform;
He plants His footsteps in the sea
And rides upon the storm. - William Cowper

My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite. - William Shakespeare

Boat Anchor: 1. Thrown out when you need it, and taken in when you don't; 2. An old computer so useless that it needs to go to sea. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Morals are not, like bacon, to be cured by hanging; nor, like wine, to be improved by sea voyages; nor, like honey, to be preserved in cells. - William Taylor

Australians have the worst greetings. I get so confused when they ask me, 'How're you going?' Did you just converge two questions? - Russell Peters