A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.
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.
If you can not arrive in daylight, then stand off well clear, and wait until dawn. After all, that's one of the things God made boats for- to wait in.
If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
If you don t know where you are, a map won't help.
It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
To reach a port we must set sail
Spirits rise as the sails fill... Gone is the sea's glassy surface, and with it the terrible glare. Close the hatches and ports! We're sailing again!
O Captain my Captain! our fearful trip is done, / The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won
Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor.
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.
The days pass happily with me wherever my ship sails.
There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
I must go down to the sea again For the call of the running tide It's a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied.
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
I don't know who named them swells. There's nothing swell about them. They should have named them awfuls.
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.
There is nothing like lying flat on your back on the deck, alone except for the helmsman aft at the wheel, silence except for the lapping of the sea against the side of the ship. At that time you can be equal to Ulysses and brother to him.
I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go.
Some years ago - never mind how long precisely - having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.
There's no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.
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