The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor.
The sea finds out everything you did wrong.
Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
There are only two colors to paint a boat, black or white, and only a fool would paint a boat black.
The cabin of a small yacht is truly a wonderful thing; not only will it shelter you from a tempest, but from the other troubles in life, it is a safe retreat.
There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
Hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic.
Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.
For the truth is that I already know as much about my fate as I need to know. The day will come when I will die. So the only matter of consequence before me is what I will do with my allotted time. I can remain on shore, paralyzed with fear, or I can raise my sails and dip and soar in the breeze.
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.
I hate storms, but calms undermine my spirits.
It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
Sailors, with their built in sense of order, service and discipline, should really be running the world.
There's no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.
Out of sight of land the sailor feels safe. It is the beach that worries him.
The sail, the play of its pulse so like our own lives: so thin and yet so full of life, so noiseless when it labors hardest, so noisy and impatient when least effective.
A sailing ship is no democracy; you don't caucus a crew as to where you'll go anymore than you inquire when they'd like to shorten sail.
It is always fair sailing, when you escape evil.
You do not ask a tame seagull why it needs to disappear from time to time toward the open sea. It goes, that's all.
One cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.
There is but a plank between a sailor and eternity.
A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.
I have no interest in sailing around the world. Not that there is any lack of requests for me to do so.
Nothing comes sailing by itself.
Man marks the earth with ruin - his control stops with the shore.
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