Browsing Topic Best Calm Seas Quotes

Storms draw something out of us that calm seas don’t.

I hate storms, but calms undermine my spirits.

One’s ships come in over a calm sea.

The birds laugh loud and long together When Fashion’s followers speed away At the first cool breath of autumn weather. Why, this is the time, cry the birds, to stay! When the deep calm sea and the deep sky over Both look their passion through sun-kissed space, As a blue-eyed maid and her blue-eyed lover Might each gaze into the other’s face.

Great people are not affected by each puff of wind that blows ill. Like great ships, they sail serenely on, in a calm sea or a great tempest.

At night, time becomes a calm sea. It goes on for ever.

Calm seas never made a good sailor

At the happy ending of the Tempest, Prospero brings the kind back togeter with his son, and finds Miranda’s true love and punishes the bad duke and frees Ariel and becomes a duke himself again. Everyone – except Caliban – is happy, and everyone is forgiven, and everyone is fine, and they all sail away on calm seas. Happy endings. That’s how it is in Shakespeare. But Shakespeare was wrong. Sometimes there isn’t a Prospero to make everything fine again. And sometimes the quality of mercy is strained.

In a calm sea every man is a pilot.

But never have I been a blue calm sea I have always been a storm.

Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.