Pirate Quotes

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  There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Life, Book

  "Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time". Book by Laurence J. Peter, 1977.

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• Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.

  Mark Twain

  Sailing, Good God, Now And Then

  Mark Twain (1875). “Old Times on the Mississippi”, p.2, Library of Alexandria

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• Ships are but boards, sailors but men; there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves, I mean pirates, and thenthere is the peril of waters, winds, and rocks.

  William Shakespeare

  Mean, Men, Rocks

  William Shakespeare (1858). “Shakspere's Werke, herausg. und erklärt von N. Delius. [With] Nachträge und Berichtigungen”

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• Drinking rum before 10 am makes you a pirate, not an alcoholic.

  Granger Smith

  Drinking, Rum, Alcoholics

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• Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.

  Johnny Depp

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• In civilizations without boats, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure and the police take the place of pirates.

  Michel Foucault

  Dream, Adventure, Civilization

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• Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate

  Johnny Depp

  Gold, Treasure, Sparrows

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• The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a Pirate.

  Bernard Williams

  Father, Men, Average

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• Damnation seize my soul if I give you quarters, or take any from you.

  Blackbeard

  Giving, Soul, Damnation

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• Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?

  Steve Jobs

  Business, Humorous, Small Jobs

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.68, Prabhat Prakashan

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• I've been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king
  I've been up and down and over and out and I know one thing
  Each time I find myself flat on my face
  I pick myself up and get back in the race

  Frank Sinatra

  Kings, Race, Puppets

  Song: That's Life, Album: That's Life

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• It is a glorious thing To be a Pirate King.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Kings, Glorious

  The Pirates of Penzance act 1 (1879)

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• I am sorry to see you here, but if you had fought like a man, you needn't be hanged like a dog.

  Anne Bonny

  Dog, Sorry, Men

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• Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit.

  Brooks Atkinson

  Sea, Land, Sailing

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• A merry life and a short one shall be my motto.

  Bartholomew Roberts

  Motto, Satiety, Piracy

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• Yes, I am a pirate, two hundred years to late. Cannons don't thunder, there's nothing to plunder, I'm an over forty victim of fate.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Fate, Order, Years

  Jimmy Buffett (2001). “Jimmy Buffett, Guitar Anthology Series: Authentic Guitar TAB Edition”, p.95, Alfred Music

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• Even pirates, before they attack another ship, hoist a black flag.

  Bela Kiraly

  Black, Flags, Ships

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• The pirate he will sink you with a kiss, he'll steal your heart and sail away.

  Joni Mitchell

  Heart, Kissing, Advice

  Song: The Pirate Of Penance, Album: Song to a Seagull

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• A captured pirate was brought before Alexander the Great. “How dare you molest the sea?” asked Alexander. “How dare you molest the whole world?” the pirate replied, and continued: “Because I do it with a little ship only, I am called a thief; you, doing it with a great navy, are called an emperor.

  Noam Chomsky

  Sea, Navy, Criminals

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• The same relation exists between merchant and pirate, who for a long period are one and the same person: where the one function appears to them inadvisable, they exercise the other.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Long, Today, Morality

  "Human, All Too Human".

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• When the king asked him what he meant by infesting the sea, the pirate defiantly replied:
  The same as you do when you infest the whole world;
  but because I do it with a little ship I am called a robber,
  and because you do it with a great fleet, you are an emperor.

  Saint Augustine

  Kings, Sea, Cynical

  Augustine, R. W. Dyson (1998). “Augustine: The City of God Against the Pagans”, p.148, Cambridge University Press

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• In an honest service there is thin commons, low wages, and hard labor; in this, plenty and satiety, pleasure and ease, liberty and power; and who would not balance creditor on this side, when all the hazard that is run for it, at worst, is only a sour look or two at choking. No, a merry life and a short one, shall be my motto.

  Bartholomew Roberts

  Running, Two, Balance

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• I don't really know much about pirates, or pirate culture. I'd be a contrarian pirate.

  Todd Barry

  Culture, Knows

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• Let's jump on board, and cut them to pieces.

  Blackbeard

  Cutting, Boards, Pieces

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• Come, don't be in a fright, but put on your clothes, and I'll let you into a secret. You must know that I am Captain of this ship now, and this is my cabin, therefore you must walk out. I am bound to Madagascar, with a design of making my own fortune, and that of all the brave fellows joined with me...if you have a mind to make one of us, we will receive you, and if you'll turn sober, and mind your business, perhaps in time I may make you one of my Lieutenants, if not, here's a boat alongside and you shall be set ashore.

  Henry Every

  Clothes, Design, Brave

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