Sailing And The Sea Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• 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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• The desire to build a house is the tired wish of a man content thenceforward with a single anchorage. The desire to build a boat is the desire of youth, unwilling yet to accept the idea of a final resting place.

  Arthur Ransome

  Tired, Men, Ideas

  Arthur Ransome, Brian Hammett (2002). “Racundra's third cruise”, Wiley

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• Wind is to us what money is to life on shore.

  Sterling Hayden

  Inspirational, Funny, Wind

  Sterling Hayden (2015). “Wanderer”, p.80, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspirational, Funny, Men

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.1106, Simon and Schuster

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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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• 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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• The house was built on the highest part of the narrow tongue of land between the harbor and the open sea. It had lasted through three hurricanes and it was built solid as a ship.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Sea, Land, House

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Islands in the Stream: A Novel”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• There are only two colors to paint a boat, black or white, and only a fool would paint a boat black.

  Nathanael Greene Herreshoff

  Color, Two, White

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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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• I want a boat that drinks 6, eats 4, and sleeps 2.

  Ernest K. Gann

  Sleep, Sailing, Nautical

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• If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.

  E. B. White

  Men, Sailing, Nautical

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• Being hove to in a long gale is the most boring way of being terrified I know.

  Donald Hamilton

  Long, Sailing, Nautical

  Donald Hamilton (1980). “Cruises with Kathleen”, David McKay Company

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• The sea drives truth into a man like salt.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Men, Sea, Sailing

  Hilaire Belloc (1912). “First and Last”, p.3, Library of Alexandria

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• Until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore, you will not know the terror of being forever lost at sea.

  Charlie Cook

  Sight, Sea, Forever

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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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• And after two days in civilization we realized we could never stay for long and started to plan our next adventure.

  Bob Bitchin

  Adventure, Civilization, Two

  Bob Bitchin (2004). “Letters from the Lost Soul: A Five Year Voyage of Discovery and Adventure”, p.285, Rowman & Littlefield

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• If you don't know where you're going any road will do

  Lewis Carroll

  Baseball, Travel, Goals Dreams

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• It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Baseball, Funny Motivational, Goals Dreams

  "His Films, His Way: Jim Jarmusch Is Still Figuring Out How to Do It". Interview with Marc Savlov, www.austinchronicle.com. October 20, 2000.

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• The ocean has always been a salve to my soul.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Ocean, Soul, Sailing

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• I can't wait for the oil wells to run dry, for the last gob of black, sticky muck to come oozing out of some remote well. Then the glory of sail will return.

  Tristan Jones

  Running, Oil, Waiting

  Tristan Jones (1998). “Ice!”, p.35, Sheridan House, Inc.

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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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• 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

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• The planning stage of a cruise is often just as enjoyable as the voyage itself, letting one's imagination loose on all kinds of possibilities. Yet translating dreams into reality means a lot of practical questions have to be answered.

  Jimmy Cornell

  Dream, Mean, Reality

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• Whenever your preparations for the sea are poor; the sea worms its way in and finds the problems.

  Francis Stokes

  Sea, Sailing, Preparation

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