John Masefield

More from John Masefield

• I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
  And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by,

  Sea-Fever (1902)In context

  • Nature

All 2 quotes from John Masefield

Popular quotes

• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

  • Success

• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

  • Philosophy