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Boating: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Oh, swiftly glides the bonnie boat, Just parted from the shore, And to the fisher's chorus-note, Soft moves the dipping oar!— JOANNA BAILLIE — Song. Oh, Swiftly

glides the Bonnie Boat. On the ear Drops the light drip of the suspended oar.— BYRON — Childe Harold. Canto III. St. 86.

But oars alone can ne'er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.— COWPER — Human Frailty. St. 6.

We lie and listen to the hissing waves, Wherein our boat seems sharpening its keel, Which on the sea's face all unthankful graves An arrowed scratch as with a tool of steel.— JOHN DAVIDSON — In a Music-Hall and Other Poems. For Lovers. L. 17.

And all the way, to guide their chime, With falling oars they kept the time.— ANDREW MARVELL — Bermudas.

Like the watermen who advance forward while they look backward.— MONTAIGNE — Bk. II. Ch. XXIX.

Of Profit and Honesty.