Sailing Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• There was a great difference in boats, of course. For a long time I was on a boat that was so slow we used to forget what year it was we left port in.

  Mark Twain

  Years, Differences, Long

  Mark Twain (1876). “Mississippi Writings”, p.333, Library of America

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• Man marks the earth with ruin - his control stops with the shore.

  Lord Byron

  Ocean, Men, Light Waves

  Childe Harold's Pilgrimage canto 4, st. 179 (1818)

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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 love sailing. I like it more when I am winning.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Winning

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• There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Witty, Wind, Rafting

  TheWind in theWillows ch. 1 (1908)

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• The days pass happily with me wherever my ship sails.

  Joshua Slocum

  Inspirational, Funny, Sea

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• Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.

  Joseph Conrad

  Inspirational, Funny, Wise

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• 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.

  Tristan Jones

  Waiting, Dawn, Nautical

  Tristan Jones (2014). “Outward Leg”, p.114, Open Road Media

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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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• When I forget how talented God is, I look to the sea.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Sea, Nautical, Looks

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• 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.

  William Butler Yeats

  Journey, Men, Thinking

  William Butler Yeats (2007). “The Celtic Twilight”, p.85, Library of Alexandria

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• 'Tis the set of the sail that decides the goal, and not the storm of life.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Inspirational, Funny, Goal

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• Sailing, the most expensive way to travel 3rd class

  Buzzy Trent

  Class, Way, Expensive

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• My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Beach, Ocean, Marine

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.189

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• I wanted to be a doctor in sports medicine; I was into sailing and all that sort of thing.

  Christopher Atkins

  Inspirational, Funny, Sports

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

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• That's why we sail. So our children can grow up and be proud of whom they are. We are healing our souls by reconnecting to our ancestors. As we voyage we are creating new stories within the tradition of the old stories, we are literally creating a new culture out of the old.

  Nainoa Thompson

  Travel, Children, Growing Up

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• Of all the things that man has made, no is so full of interest and charm,
  none possesses so distinct a life and character of its own, as a ship.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Character, Men, Nautical

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• It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.

  Howard Ruff

  Inspirational, Monday, Time

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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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• 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 ocean has always been a salve to my soul.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Ocean, Soul, Nautical

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• 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.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Discovery, Land, Water

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• My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea, and the heart of the great ocean sends a thrilling pulse through me.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Beach, Ocean, Heart

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Favorite Poems”, p.45, Courier Corporation

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• There never was a great man yet who spent all his life inland.

  Herman Melville

  Men, Nautical, Yacht

  Herman Melville (2016). “White Jacket”, p.292, Herman Melville

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