Kenneth Grahame Quotes About Boat

Quotes about: Boat

• There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Witty, Wind, Sailing

  TheWind in theWillows ch. 1 (1908)

• There is nothing -- absolutely nothing -- half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. In or out of 'em, it doesn't matter. Nothing seems really to matter, that's the charm of it. Whether you get away, or whether you don't; whether you arrive at your destination or whether you reach somewhere else, or whether you never get anywhere at all, you're always busy, and you never do anything in particular; and when you've done it there's always something else to do, and you can do it if you like, but you'd much better not.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Somewhere Else, Sailing, Nautical

  Kenneth Grahame (1988). “My Dearest Mouse: 'The Wind in the Willows' Letters”, Viking Press

• An errant May-fly swerved unsteadily athwart the current in the intoxicated fashion affected by young bloods of May-flies seeing life. A swirl of water and a 'cloop!' and the May-fly was visible no more

  Kenneth Grahame

  Fashion, Blood, Sea

  Paul Brody, Kenneth Grahame (2015). “The Life and Works of Kenneth Grahame: A Biography and Collection of Grahame’s Work”, p.332, BookCaps Study Guides

• The river , corrected the Rat, It's my world...What it hasn't got is not worth having.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

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