Sailing Quotes - Page 7

• The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.

  Joseph Conrad

  Ocean, Men, Sea

  Joseph Conrad (2011). “The Mirror of the Sea”, p.147, The Floating Press

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• What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness.

  Bernard Cornwell

  Inspirational, Funny, Ocean

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• Only fools and passengers drink at sea.

  Alan Villiers

  Sea, Nautical, Fool

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• Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.

  Euripides

  Happiness, Happy, Joy

  Euripides (1958). “Euripides: Rhesus, translated by R. Lattimore. The suppliant women, translated by F. Jones. Orestes, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Iphigenia in Aulis, translated by C. R. Walker”

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• A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Jail, Navy

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 1, p. 348 (16 March 1759).

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• He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.

  William Golding

  Patience, Sea, Woven

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• When I go abroad I always sail from Boston because it is such a pleasant place to get away from.

  Oliver Herford

  Inspirational, Funny, Boston

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• No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

  Samuel Johnson

  Funny, Army, Men

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

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• I use filming as an excuse to take classes. I got my certification in sailing for 'Wedding Crashers,' and now I can handle a 26-foot boat. I played a seamstress once, so I took sewing classes. I love dipping into these other lives.

  Rachel McAdams

  Inspirational, Funny, Wedding

  "Rachel McAdams: OK, We Love This Girl!". Interview with Alexandra Marshall, www.glamour.com. January 2, 2012.

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• What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.

  Thomas Merton

  Inspiring, Life Changing, Moon

  Thomas Merton (1970). “The Wisdom of the Desert: Sayings from the Desert Fathers of the Fourth Century”, p.11, New Directions Publishing

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• If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.

  Samuel Beckett

  Baseball, Goals Dreams, Yankees

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• Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.

  Mark Twain

  Pirate, Good God, Now And Then

  Mark Twain (1875). “Old Times on the Mississippi”, p.2, Library of Alexandria

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• 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.

  John Masefield

  Running, Sea, May

  "Sea Fever" l. 5 (1902)

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• I think becoming an actor because it's a ridiculously insecure profession to go into. I feel very comfortable but very lucky. I think any time that you imagine that it's plain sailing for hereon in, then you're kidding yourself.

  Hugh Dancy

  Inspirational, Funny, Insecure

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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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• Money can't buy you happiness but it can pay for the plastic surgery.

  Joan Rivers

  Hilarious, Pay, Pull Ups

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

  Richard Cushing

  Inspirational, Rain, Planning Ahead

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• Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore.

  Thomas Campion

  Inspirational, Funny, Weather

  'Two Books of Airs' (1612/1613) no. 11

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• I once knew a writer who, after saying beautiful things about the sea, passed through a Pacific hurricane, and he became a changed man.

  Joshua Slocum

  Beautiful, Men, Sea

  Joshua Slocum, Applewood Books (CRT) (2006). “Sailing Alone Around the World”, p.193, Applewood Books

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• If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Inspiring, Success, Baseball

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• Nothing goes to windward like a 747.

  Tracee Ellis Ross

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• The humblest craft that floats makes its appeal to a seaman by the faithfulness of her life.

  Joseph Conrad

  Nautical, Crafts, Faithfulness

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “The Napoleonic Novels: The Rover & Suspense: From the Renowned Author of The Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent and Under Western Eyes (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)”, p.604, e-artnow

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

  Ernest K. Gann

  Sleep, Nautical, Want

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• I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.

  Arthur Ashe

  Inspirational, Funny, Dark

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• The goal is not to sail the boat, but rather to help the boat sail herself.

  John Rousmaniere

  Goal, Nautical, Helping

  John Rousmaniere (1988). “The sailing lifestyle: a guide to sailing and crusing for pleasure”, Fireside

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