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.
Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.
When I go abroad I always sail from Boston because it is such a pleasant place to get away from.
The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
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.
Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company
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.
Only fools and passengers drink at sea.
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.
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.
Plan ahead: It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.
Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore.
I once knew a writer who, after saying beautiful things about the sea, passed through a Pacific hurricane, and he became a changed man.
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.
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.
Money can't buy you happiness but it can pay for the plastic surgery.
Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.
It's remarkable how quickly a good and favorable wind can sweep away the maddening frustrations of shore living.
If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere
If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.
I want a boat that drinks 6, eats 4, and sleeps 2.
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.
The goal is not to sail the boat, but rather to help the boat sail herself.
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