Ships At Sea Quotes - Page 2

• Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

  Samuel Johnson

  Travel, Jail, Sailing

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

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• It isn't that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better.

  Francis Drake

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way.

  John Paul Jones

  Life, Fear, Military

  Letter to Le Ray de Chaumont, 16 Nov. 1778

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• It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.

  George William Curtis

  Journey, Smooth Sailing, Achievement

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• He who lets the sea lull him into a sense of security is in very grave danger.

  Hammond Innes

  Sea, Sailing, Nautical

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• When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

  Christopher Morley

  Inspirational, Education, Book

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• 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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• For one thing, I was no longer alone; a man is never alone with the wind-and the boat made three.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Men, Wind, Sailing

  Hilaire Belloc (1996). “Hills and the Sea”, p.126, Northwestern University Press

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

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Sea, Sailing, Nautical

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

  Vito Dumas

  Sea, Sailing, Nautical

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

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• Spirits rise as the sails fill...
  Gone is the sea's glassy surface, and with it the terrible glare.
  Close the hatches and ports!
  We're sailing again!

  Jim Moore

  Sea, Sailing, Nautical

  Jim Moore (1996). “By Way of the Wind”, p.105, Sheridan House, Inc.

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• The thing I realized this last few days is that the earth is a big place.

  Paul Cayard

  Sea, Sailing, Earth

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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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• Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.

  Thomas Moore

  Sea, Heaven, Gone

  Thomas Moore (1823). “The works of Thomas Moore, comprehending all his melodies, ballads, etc”, p.305

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• Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sea, Brave, Secret

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.131

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• We have met the enemy and they are ours.

  Oliver Hazard Perry

  Memorial Day, Veterans Day, Military

  Message toWilliam Henry Harrison, 10 Sept. 1813. The source is Perry's dispatch from the U.S. brig Niagara to General Harrison, announcing that victory at the Battle of Lake Erie was secure. The dispatch was written in pencil on the back of an old letter; it is quoted in Robert B. McAfee, History of the LateWar in theWestern Country (1816). SeeWalt Kelly 2; Walt Kelly 3

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

  Joshua Slocum

  Inspirational, Funny, Sea

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  I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Inspirational, Confidence, Wisdom

  J. M. Barrie, Charles Dickens, Johanna Spyri, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum (2015). “Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…”, p.1082, e-artnow

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• There is nothing like lying flat on your back on the deck, alone except for the helmsman aft at the wheel, silence except for the lapping of the sea against the side of the ship. At that time you can be equal to Ulysses and brother to him.

  Errol Flynn

  Brother, Lying, Sea

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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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• 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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• 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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• I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

  Jimmy Dean

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

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