Boats And Sailing Quotes - Page 2

To the question, "When were your spirits at the lowest ebb?" the obvious answer seemed to be, "When the gin gave out."

Francis Chichester

Sailing, Nautical, Answers

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Bad cooking is responsible for more trouble at sea than all other things put together.

Thomas Fleming Day

Sea, Cooking, Sailing

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Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Give him a fishing lesson and he'll sit in a boat drinking beer every weekend.

Alex Blackwell

Drinking, Beer, Weekend

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You do not ask a tame seagull why it needs to disappear from time to time toward the open sea. It goes, that's all.

Bernard Moitessier

Sea, Sailing, Needs

Bernard Moitessier (1995). “The Long Way”, p.3, Rowman & Littlefield

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later down the road of life, i made the discovery that salt water was also good for the mental abrasions one inevitably acquires on land.

Jimmy Buffett

Discovery, Land, Water

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The ocean has always been a salve to my soul.

Jimmy Buffett

Ocean, Soul, Sailing

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Rocks, Guy, Sailing

Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.12, Open Road Media

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The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Dale Carnegie

Success, Persistence, Will And Determination

Dale Carnegie, J. Oliver Crom, Michael A. Crom (2003). “The Sales Advantage: How to Get It, Keep It, and Sell More Than Ever”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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I don't know who named them swells. There's nothing swell about them. They should have named them awfuls.

Hugo Vihlen

Should Have, Sailing, Nautical

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To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest. Otherwise, you are doomed to a routine traverse, the kind known to yachtsmen who play with their boats at sea 'cruising' it is called. Voyaging belongs to seamen, and to the wanderers of the world who cannot, or will not, fit in. If you are contemplating a voyage and you have the means, abandon the venture until your fortunes change. Only then will you know what the sea is all about.

Sterling Hayden

Mean, Sea, Play

Sterling Hayden (2015). “Wanderer”, p.42, Pickle Partners Publishing

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I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.

Arthur Ashe

Inspirational, Funny, Dark

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I must down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life, To the gull's way and the whale's way where the wind's like a whetted knife And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow rover, And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over.

John Masefield

Life, Dream, Sweet

'Sea Fever' (1902)

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Any damn fool can navigate the world sober. It takes a really good sailor to do it drunk.

Francis Chichester

Inspirational, Funny, Drinking

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To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go.

Joshua Slocum

Inspirational, Funny, Encouraging

Joshua Slocum (1985). “The Voyages of Joshua Slocum”, p.381, Sheridan House, Inc.

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Out of sight of land the sailor feels safe. It is the beach that worries him.

Charles Davis

Inspirational, Funny, Beach

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The chance for mistakes is about equal to the number of crew squared.

Ted Turner

Mistake, Numbers, Sailing

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Men in a ship are always looking up, and men ashore are usually looking down.

John Masefield

Men, Sailing, Nautical

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I hate storms, but calms undermine my spirits.

Bernard Moitessier

Inspirational, Funny, Hate

Bernard Moitessier (1995). “The Long Way”, p.62, Sheridan House, Inc.

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There is little man has made that approaches anything in nature, but a sailing ship does. There is not much man has made that calls to all the best in him, but a sailing ship does.

Alan Villiers

Men, Sea, Sailing

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Sailors, with their built in sense of order, service and discipline, should really be running the world.

Nicholas Monsarrat

Inspirational, Funny, Running

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A small craft in an ocean is, or should be, a benevolent dictatorship.

Tristan Jones

Ocean, Sailing, Nautical

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He who lets the sea lull him into a sense of security is in very grave danger.

Hammond Innes

Sea, Sailing, Nautical

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For the truth is that I already know as much about my fate as I need to know. The day will come when I will die. So the only matter of consequence before me is what I will do with my allotted time. I can remain on shore, paralyzed with fear, or I can raise my sails and dip and soar in the breeze.

Richard Bode

Fate, Risk, Sailing

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Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off - then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.

Herman Melville

Depression, Strong, Hands

Herman Melville (2002). “Moby-Dick: A Picture Voyage : an Abridged and Illustrated Edition of the Original Classic”, p.13, Spinner Publications

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To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest.

Sterling Hayden

Challenges, Foundation, Unrest

Sterling Hayden (2015). “Wanderer”, p.42, Pickle Partners Publishing

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