You Can Never Cross The Ocean

This quote is a confirmed misattribution: it originates with the French Nobel laureate André Gide, who wrote in French, "On ne découvre pas de terre nouvelle sans consentir à perdre de vue, d'abord et longtemps, toute rive" — roughly, "One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore." The phrase was later popularized as a Columbus quote, fitting his story thematically even though Christopher Columbus left no record of saying it. Columbus's actual writings — his journals, letters to Ferdinand and Isabella, and the Book of Prophecies — survive and show a quite different literary voice.