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There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily! -- Saint Francis de Sales
There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water. -- Kate Chopin
A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them. -- Michel de Montaigne
Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar. -- Robert Frost
Statistically, I'd say comedy writers are perhaps the sanest category of show people. And why not? They make big money, and although it's not an easy trade - particularly when you're at your galley oar five days a week - it's easier on the nerves and the psyche than living with the brain-squeezing pressure and cares of being the Star. -- Dick Cavett
The oars game me power but also taught me humility. -- Barry S. Strauss
The desert is an ocean in which no oar is dipped. -- T. E. Lawrence
Carry an oar when you drive. Three times I've ended up in water. -- Phyllis Diller
And all the way, to guide their chime, With falling oars they kept their time. -- Andrew Marvell
What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in! -- Gustave Flaubert
Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars. -- Richard Halliburton
I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them. -- Harold S. Geneen
Prayer and praise are the oars by which a man may row his boat into the deep waters of the knowledge of Christ. -- Charles Spurgeon
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. -- William Cowper
The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are true prayers heard throughout nature. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand. -- Aristophanes
He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale. -- Samuel Johnson
I thought when I became a Christian I had nothing to do but just to lay my oars in the bottom of the boat and float along. But I soon found that I would have to go against the current. -- Dwight L. Moody
The masses do not see the Sirens. They do not hear songs in the air. Blind, deaf, stooping, they pull at their oars in the hold of the earth. But the more select, the captains, harken to a Siren within them...and royally squander their lives with her. -- Nikos Kazantzakis
From the Sun I learned this: when he goes down, overrich; he pours gold into the sea out of inexhaustible riches, so that even the poorest fisherman still rows with golden oars. For this I once saw and I did not tire of my tears as I watched it. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them. -- Harold S. Geneen
It is not good to have an oar in everyone's boat. -- Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden
On the ear Drops the light drip of the suspended oar. -- Lord Byron
I dream of silent verses where the rhyme glides noiseless as an oar. -- Richard Aldington
Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. -- Alexander Pope
The judgment is an utensil proper for all subjects, and will have an oar in everything. -- Michel de Montaigne
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
Shakespeare is forever coming into our affairs -- putting in his oar, so to speak -- with some pat word or sentence. -- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
To follow the drops sliding from a lifting oar, Head up, while the rower breathes, and the small boat drifts quietly shoreward... -- Theodore Roethke
Quorum and group leaders should provide the leading voice and laboring oar in every ward and branch council regarding retention of converts. -- D. Todd Christofferson
Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure from those material sources which are attractive to oar moral nature in its purity and perfection. -- John Ruskin
Baccarat is a game whereby the croupier gathers in money with a flexible sculling oar, then rakes it home. If I could have borrowed his oar I would have stayed. -- Mark Twain
Happy he whoe'er, content with the common lot, with safe breeze hugs the shore, and, fearing to trust his skiff to the wider sea, with unambitious oar keeps close to the land. -- Seneca the Younger

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