Boat Quotes - Page 2

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

  Joshua Slocum

  Inspirational, Funny, Sea

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• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

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• Most people are rowing against the current of life. Instead of turning the boat around, all they need to do is let go of the oars.

  Esther Hicks

  Letting Go, People, Needs

  "Be Flexible!" by Mike Robbins, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 27, 2010.

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• The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.

  Isak Dinesen

  Beach, Encouragement, Ocean

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• The goal is not to sail the boat, but rather to help the boat sail herself.

  John Rousmaniere

  Goal, Sailing, Nautical

  John Rousmaniere (1988). “The sailing lifestyle: a guide to sailing and crusing for pleasure”, Fireside

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• Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Rocks, Guy, Sailing

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.12, Open Road Media

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• Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Give him a fishing lesson and he'll sit in a boat drinking beer every weekend.

  Alex Blackwell

  Drinking, Beer, Weekend

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  The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Ocean, Men, Sea

  Speech by Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation Carlos Moedas on the occasion of the signing of the Belém Statement, Lisbon, europa.eu. July 13, 2017.

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• Sailors, with their built in sense of order, service and discipline, should really be running the world.

  Nicholas Monsarrat

  Inspirational, Funny, Running

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• Time is a river, and books are boats.

  Dan Brown

  Book, Rivers

  Dan Brown (2010). “The Lost Symbol Illustrated edition”, p.1025, Random House

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• The body is a boat that carries the soul in the ocean of the world. If it is not strong, or it has a hole, then it cannot cross the ocean, so the first duty is to fix the boat.

  Baba Hari Dass

  Strong, Ocean, Soul

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• I can stay on my boat for a few weeks if I have a guitar and a girl and a Bob Marley CD. After that, I've got to move around.

  Kenny Chesney

  Girl, Moving, Guitar

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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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• Little boats should keep near shore

  Benjamin Franklin

  Row Boats, Littles, Should

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1809). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.241

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• And the winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

  Edward Gibbon

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  "History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire". Volume 6,

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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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• Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.

  Anne Lamott

  Running, Commitment, Acceptance

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.236, Anchor

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• Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Jerome K. Jerome (2014). “Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.44, Diderot Publishing

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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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• The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspirational, Funny, Men

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.1106, Simon and Schuster

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• There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.

  Joseph Conrad

  Life, Ocean, Army

  Joseph Conrad (1905). “Lord Jim”, p.7, McClure, Phillips & Company

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• I love boating - not flash, 'noisy go fast' nonsense, but the general relaxation of it. My wife and I love to get in our little Wellcraft and go as far out to sea as we can, hopefully beyond land. That is the best thing you can ever do. It clears your psyche.

  John Lydon

  Sea, Land, Wife

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• Does this boat go to Europe, France?

  Anita Loos

  Travel, Europe, Tourism

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• If you are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy's propensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

  Kenneth Kaye

  Guy, Balance, Port

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• Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.

  Alan Rickman

  Travel, Journey, Giving

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