Sailing Quotes - Page 3

• I wanted freedom, open air and adventure. I found it on the sea.

  Alain Gerbault

  Adventure, Air, Sea

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• Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

  Samuel Johnson

  Travel, Jail, Navy

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 16 Mar. 1759)

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

  Ted Turner

  Mistake, Numbers, Nautical

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• The sea finds out everything you did wrong.

  Francis Stokes

  Sea, Nautical, Boat

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

  Francis Chichester

  Nautical, Answers, Spirit

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• There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

  John Ruskin

  Change, Running, Rainy Day

  "The Use Of Life". Book by John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury. Chapter 4: "Recreation", 1894.

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• Hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic.

  Van Morrison

  Beach, Ocean, Sea

  "Song: 'Into the Mystic'". 1970.

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

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Rocks, Guy, Nautical

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

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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, Dip

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• 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.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Motivational, Lying, Moving

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The sail, the play of its pulse so like our own lives: so thin and yet so full of life, so noiseless when it labors hardest, so noisy and impatient when least effective.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Play, Pulse, Nautical

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.381

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• A sailing ship is no democracy; you don't caucus a crew as to where you'll go anymore than you inquire when they'd like to shorten sail.

  Sterling Hayden

  Inspirational, Funny, Democracy

  Sterling Hayden (2015). “Wanderer”, p.67, Pickle Partners Publishing

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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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• There's no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.

  Bill Bowerman

  Funny, Motivational, Nike

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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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• 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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• It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.

  George William Curtis

  Journey, Smooth Sailing, Achievement

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• It is always fair sailing, when you escape evil.

  Sophocles

  Evil, Fairs

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Sophocles”

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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, Needs, Disappear

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

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• One cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.

  Richard Francis Burton

  Islands, Sea, Wings

  Sir Richard Francis Burton (1863). “Wanderings in West Africa from Liverpool to Fernando Po”, p.65

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• There is but a plank between a sailor and eternity.

  Thomas Gibbons

  Sea, Sailor, Nautical

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• A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

  Grace Hopper

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  1987 Address at Trinity College, Washington. Reported in Time, 22 Jun.

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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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• It's fear of the unknown. The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love, hate, all that-it's all illusion. Unknown is what it is. Accept that it's unknown and it's plain sailing. Everything is unknown-then you're ahead of the game. That's what it is. Right?

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Funny, Dream

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• I have no interest in sailing around the world. Not that there is any lack of requests for me to do so.

  Edward Heath

  Inspirational, Funny, World

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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