Mark Twain Quotes About Sailing

• 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

• Herschel removed the speckled tent-roof from the world and exposed the immeasurable deeps of space, dim-flecked with fleets of colossal suns sailing their billion-leagued remoteness.

  Mark Twain

  Science, Space, Sailing

  Mark Twain (2003). “Tales of Wonder”, p.223, U of Nebraska Press

• There was a great difference in boats, of course. For a long time I was on a boat that was so slow we used to forget what year it was we left port in.

  Mark Twain

  Years, Differences, Long

  Mark Twain (1876). “Mississippi Writings”, p.333, Library of America

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