The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze. Livy
Sitting over words Very late I have heard a kind of whispered sighing Not far Like a night wind in pines or like the sea in the dark The echo of everything that has ever Been spoken Still spinning its one syllable Between the earth and silence. W.S. Merwin
Ambition Is like the sea wave, which the more you drink The more you thirst-yea-drink too much, as men Have done on rafts of wreck-it drives you mad. Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Time held me green and dying Though I sang in my chains like the sea. Dylan Thomas
Doctors is all swabs...and that doctor there, why, what do he know about seafaring men? I been in places hot as pitch, and mates dropping round with Yellow Jack, and the blessed land a-heaving like the sea with earthquakes - what do the doctor know of lands like that? Robert Louis Stevenson
Familiarity is like the sea that kills the fisherman. Kiganda Proverb