Sayings about islands

[act]

For dialogue in a play, need some wise old sayings about the "hold" islands can have ye, especially Maine islands..

[Whifflingpin]

Perhaps you could invent some.

"Maine Islanders, born of rock and sea foam, not flesh and blood" - Daniel Cabot

"It's only on an island that the pull of the tides is balanced. Having sea on just one side is unnatural and unnerving." - Noodlewhacker

"The silence and scarcity of those bare rocks drive them to far-flung and populous places, whence noise and busyness drive them back time and again to the silence." - Hywel Morgan

[mortalterror]

My favorite saying about islands comes from The Devil's Dictionary by Ambroce Bierce:

An English sea-captain being asked if he had read "The Exile of Erin," replied: "No, sir, but I should like to anchor on it." Years afterwards, when he had been hanged as a pirate after a career of unparalleled atrocities, the following memorandum was found in the ship's log that he had kept at the time of his reply:

Aug. 3d, 1842. Made a joke on the ex-Isle of Erin. Coldly received. War with the whole world!

[Chava]

"All islands meet bellow the sea" - hey, if you're not going to make them up yourself, you may as well be cliché...