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  • The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor. -- Samuel Butler
  • Capitalists seem uninterested in capitalism, even as eager entrepreneurs can't get financing. Businesses and investors sound like the Ancient Mariner, who complained, 'Water, water everywhere - nor any drop to drink.' -- Clayton Christensen
  • 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' had a formative effect on me. I think it's one of those works that if you encounter it very early you're doubly enchanted by the beauty of the language and the strangeness of the vision. It stays with you. -- Ben Okri
  • Again Mariner and Butcher are trying to work the oracle on the near post -- Martin Tyler
  • O Mariner-soul, Thy quest is but begun, There are new worlds Forever to be won. -- Lucy Larcom
  • Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be, but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea. -- Plato
  • It ["The Ancient Mariner"] is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamantine logic of dreamland. -- James Russell Lowell
  • The Ancient Mariner seizes the guest at the wedding feast and will not let go until he has told all his story: the prototype of the bore. -- Mason Cooley
  • Like one who, on a lonely road, Doth walk in fear and dread, And, having once turned round, walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. - Coleridge's "Ancient Mariner. -- Mary Shelley
  • The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' had a formative effect on me. I think it's one of those works that if you encounter it very early you're doubly enchanted by the beauty of the language and the strangeness of the vision. It stays with you. -- Ben Okri
  • I am all the time talking about you, and bragging, to one person or another. I am like the Ancient Mariner, who had a tale in his heart he must unfold to all. I am always buttonholing somebody and saying, "Someday you must meet my mother." -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • He has not yet become an elder statesman, though his foreign policy credentials are considerable, but he is certainly our ancient mariner, forever tugging at our sleeve to let him tell his tale of what really happened. -- Ronald Steel
  • In all parts of the Old World, as well as of the New, it was evident that Columbus had kindled a fire in every mariner's heart. That fire was the harbinger of a new era, for it was not to be extinguished. -- Charles Kendall Adams
  • Captain Falco saw the diminishment of biodiversity in our oceans over a span of nearly seven decades. He was dedicated to the protection of life and habitats in the sea. He was a legendary mariner, diver, oceanographer, and conservationist. The world is a better place because of him. -- Paul Watson
  • A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner. -- English Proverb
  • Many a green isle needs must be In the deep wide sea of Misery, Or the mariner, worn and wan, Never thus could voyage on. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • His bark The daring mariner shall urge far o'er The Western wave, a smooth and level plain, Albeit the earth is fashioned like a wheel. -- Luigi Pulci
  • A great sorrow, like a mariner's quadrant, brings the sun at noon down to the horizon, and we learn where we are on the sea of life. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • Look to the lighthouse of the Lord. There is no fog so dense, no night so dark, no gale so strong, no mariner so lost but what its beacon light can rescue. -- Thomas S. Monson
  • Books may be written in all sorts of places. Verbal inspiration may enter the berth of a mariner on board a ship frozen fast in a river in the middle of a town. -- Joseph Conrad
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