Sailing Quotes - Page 8

• Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Inspirational, Funny, Anchors

  Letter to H.S. Randall, May 23, 1857.

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• He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.

  Walter Scott

  Inspirational, Success, Wind

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• I'll do business with anyone, but I'll only go sailing with gentlemen.

  J. P. Morgan

  Gentleman

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• 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.

  Herman Melville

  Inspirational, Funny, Years

  Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.1, Velvet Element Books

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• My goal in sailing isn't to be brilliant or flashy in individual races, just to be consistent over the long run.

  Dennis Conner

  Inspirational, Funny, Running

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• The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind.

  William Falconer

  Inspirational, Funny, Wind

  William Falconer (2012). “Falconers Marine Dictionary (1780)”, p.253, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Sailing a boat calls for quick action, a blending of feeling with the wind and water as well as with the very heart and soul of the boat itself. Sailing teaches alertness and courage, and gives in return a joyousness and peace that but few sports afford.

  George Matthew Adams

  Sports, Heart, Wind

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• Design has taken the place of what sailing used to be.

  Dennis Conner

  Inspirational, Funny, Taken

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• Whenever your preparations for the sea are poor; the sea worms its way in and finds the problems.

  Francis Stokes

  Sea, Preparation, Nautical

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• It's out there at sea that you are really yourself.

  Vito Dumas

  Sea, Nautical, Ships

  John Guzzwell, Vito Dumas, Joshua Slocum (1976). “Great voyages in small boats: solo circumnavigations”, John De Graff

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• I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.

  John Masefield

  Lonely, Stars, Sea

  "Sea Fever" l. 1 (1902).

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• Wind is to us what money is to life on shore.

  Sterling Hayden

  Inspirational, Funny, Wind

  Sterling Hayden (2015). “Wanderer”, p.80, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• There's no such thing as bad weather - only the wrong clothes.

  Billy Connolly

  Being Happy, Running, Adventure

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• To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Anchors

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7”, p.248, Best Books on

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• To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go.

  Joshua Slocum

  Inspirational, Funny, Encouraging

  Joshua Slocum (1985). “The Voyages of Joshua Slocum”, p.381, Sheridan House, Inc.

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• Men in a ship are always looking up, and men ashore are usually looking down.

  John Masefield

  Men, Nautical, Ships

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• A ship is always referred to as 'she' because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.

  Chester W. Nimitz

  Peace, War, Sea

  1959 In the NewYork Times, 24May.

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• This is largely the methodology I've used throughout my career - that is, starting with a question as to what might be the properties of a set of compounds that could be invented which were unusual and unpredictable. Many times I've felt a bit like Columbus setting sail.

  Donald Cram

  Inspirational, Funny, Careers

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• A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Ocean, Sea, People

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• Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Inspirational, Funny, Ocean

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• We were wavering around like a ship without a sail.

  Judy Holliday

  Inspirational, Funny, Wavering

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• It is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, ina government ship, with five hundred men and boys to assist one, than it is to explore the private sea, the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean of one's being alone.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Ocean, Men, Boys

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.208, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The questions that used to bother me at times, do not weigh anything before the immensity of a wake so close to the sky and filled with the wind of the sea

  Bernard Moitessier

  Wind, Sea, Sky

  Bernard Moitessier (1995). “The Long Way”, p.4, Rowman & Littlefield

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• If you're going through difficult times today, hold steady. It will change soon. If you are experiencing smooth sailing and easy times now, brace yourself. It will change soon. The only thing you can be certain of is change.

  James Dobson

  Inspirational Life, Smooth Sailing, Today

  James Dobson (2001). “38 Values to Live By”, p.8, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Waves are not measured in feet or inches, they are measured in increments of fear.

  Buzzy Trent

  Feet, Surfing, Nautical

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