The sea is as near as we come to another world.
There is a tide in the affairs of men
There's no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing
The thing I realized this last few days is that the earth is a big place.
I am a citizen of the most beautiful nation on earth, a nation whose laws are harsh yet simple, a nation that never cheats, which is immense and without borders, where life is lived in the present. In this limitless nation, this nation of wind, light, and peace, there is no other ruler besides the sea.
No literature is richer than that of the sea. No story is more enthralling, no tradition is more secure.
A sea captain when he stands upon the bridge, or looks out from his deck-house, thinks much about God and about the world. Away in the valley yonder among the corn and the poppies men may well forget all things except the warmth of the sun upon the face, and the kind shadow under the hedge; but he who journeys through storm and darkness must needs think and think.
I was born in the breezes, and I had studied the sea as perhaps few men have studied it, neglecting all else.
For one thing, I was no longer alone; a man is never alone with the wind-and the boat made three.
If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death.
A small craft in an ocean is, or should be, a benevolent dictatorship.
I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it is because in addition to the fact that the sea changes and the light changes, and ships change, it is because we all came from the sea. And it is an interesting biological fact that all of us have, in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch it we are going back from whence we came.
A ship is always referred to as 'she' because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.
There's no such thing as bad weather - only the wrong clothes.
To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.
If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere
When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails
The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
Off Cape Horn there are but two kinds of weather, neither one of them a pleasant kind.
To the question, "When were your spirits at the lowest ebb?" the obvious answer seemed to be, "When the gin gave out."
Bad cooking is responsible for more trouble at sea than all other things put together.
Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.
He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
There is a time in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.
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