Sailors And The Sea Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• There is a tide in the affairs of men

  William Shakespeare

  Philosophical, Opportunity, Men

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 215

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

  Thomas Gibbons

  Sea, Sailing, Sailor

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

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Jail, Sailing

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

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• Bad cooking is responsible for more trouble at sea than all other things put together.

  Thomas Fleming Day

  Sea, Cooking, Sailing

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• If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Taken, Opportunity

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 215

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• There is a time in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.

  William Shakespeare

  Change, Taken, Opportunity

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 215

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• There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.

  Herman Melville

  Sweet, Sea, Soul

  Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.535, Velvet Element Books

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• The sea hath no king but God alone.

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

  Beach, Kings, Ocean

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti (2014). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.329, Delphi Classics

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• There is indeed, perhaps, no better way to hold communion with the sea than sitting in the sun on the veranda of a fishermen's café

  Joseph Beach

  Beach, Sea, Sitting

  Joseph Warren Beach (1925). “Meek Americans: & Other European Trifles”

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• There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.

  James Russell Lowell

  Ocean, Sea, Pirate

  James Russell Lowell (1864). “Fireside Travels”, p.157

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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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• There is no more thrilling sensation I know of than sailing. It comes as near to flying as man has got to yet - except in dreams.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Dream, Men, Sea

  Jerome K. Jerome (2014). “Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.212, Diderot Publishing

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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, Sailing, Good God

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

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• A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Men, Sea

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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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• All I ask is a tall ship and a star to sail her by.

  John Masefield

  Stars, Sea, Sailing

  John Masefield, “Sea Fever”

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• The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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

  Kenneth Grahame

  Witty, Wind, Sailing

  TheWind in theWillows ch. 1 (1908)

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• Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit.

  Brooks Atkinson

  Sea, Land, Pirate

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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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• I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began.

  William Hazlitt

  Hate, Struggle, Sea

  William Hazlitt, William Ernest Henley (1904). “The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Fugitive writings”

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• Praise the sea; on shore remain.

  John Florio

  Rain, Ocean, Sea

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