Famous quotes containing the words sea and/or girt:
“We have found that 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 Cooke Taylor (1800–1849)
“Just girt me for the onset with Eternity,
When breath blew back,
And on the other side
I heard recede the disappointed tide!”
—Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)