Mark Twain Quotes

Don't take me for a fool!" Dee interrupted angrily, but then had to lean over the boat as another bout of nausea gripped him. Virginia grinned and winked at Josh. "It's hard to sound masterful when you're throwing up, isn't it?" "I hate you, Virginia Dare," Dee mumbled. "I know you don't really mean that," she said lightly. "I do," he croaked.

I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!

When you're on the open sea and you drop 10, 12 feet and your stomach goes up around your neck - that's when you have problems.

It is a curious fact, but nobody ever is sea-sick - on land. At sea, you come across plenty of people very bad indeed, whole boat-loads of them; but I never met a man yet, on land, who had ever known at all what it was to be sea-sick. Where the thousands upon thousands of bad sailors that swarm in every ship hide themselves when they are on land is a mystery.

I have vertigo. Vertigo makes it feel like the floor is pitching up and down. Things seem to be spinning. It's like standing on the deck of a ship in really high seas.

I'm a bad traveller because I suffer from travel sickness.

My little dog, he did not get ill. It is so funny that people get ill on a boat and dogs do not.

This is the thing: I get motion sickness.

I get seasick quite badly.

Getting an upset tummy is never pleasant, and it's worse if you get a funny tummy a long way from home.

Seasick," Scatty mumbled. "That's exactly what it feels like. Only worse.

I am ill every time it blows hard, and nothing but my enthusiastic love for the profession keeps me one hour at sea.

Beached under the spumy blooms, we lie Sea-sick and fever-dry.

Seasickness: at first you are so sick you are afraid you will die, and then you are so sick you are afraid you won't die.

We all like to see people sea-sick when we are not ourselves.

I'd take a Bromo, but I can't stand the noise.

I am never, never, sick at sea. What never? No never! What never? Hardly ever.

On the 17th of May, the Delos put out to sea. I was immediately affected with sea-sickness, which, however, lasted but a short time. I remained on deck constantly, forcing myself to exercise.

An astonishing portion of my life is built around trying to evade vomiting and preparing for the eventuality that I might.

When someone throws up while watching one of your movies, it's like a standing ovation.

A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree.

I don't like rides. I take everything in life quite literally, and so I genuinely feel terrified on rides and liable to vomit at any moment, and I hate to vomit even more than I fear rides.

One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.

Vertigo, it was thought at the time, could only be caused by a disease of the cerebellum. He observed this kind of patient for years and saw absolutely no symptoms of brain disease.

How many people do you know who have thrown up on the Scrambler or a carnival ride? A lot of people, is the answer.