Nautical Quotes - Page 2

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

  Joshua Slocum

  Inspirational, Funny, Sea

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• The ocean is an object of no small terror.

  Edmund Burke

  Ocean, Sailing, Terror

  Edmund Burke, T. O. McLoughlin, Paul Langford, James T. Boulton (1997). “The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke: Volume I: The Early Writings”, p.230, Oxford University Press on Demand

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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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• There's no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing

  Ranulph Fiennes

  Running, Adventure, Weather

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• The only way to get a good crew is to marry one.

  Eric Hiscock

  Sea, Sailing, Way

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• The ocean has always been a salve to my soul.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Ocean, Soul, Sailing

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• Wind is to us what money is to life on shore.

  Sterling Hayden

  Inspirational, Funny, Wind

  Sterling Hayden (2015). “Wanderer”, p.80, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• There is little man has made that approaches anything in nature, but a sailing ship does. There is not much man has made that calls to all the best in him, but a sailing ship does.

  Alan Villiers

  Men, Sea, Sailing

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• If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.

  Jonathan Winters

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go.

  Joshua Slocum

  Inspirational, Funny, Encouraging

  Joshua Slocum (1985). “The Voyages of Joshua Slocum”, p.381, Sheridan House, Inc.

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• Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.

  Richard Burton

  Islands, Sea, Wings

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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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• Off Cape Horn there are but two kinds of weather, neither one of them a pleasant kind.

  John Masefield

  Weather, Two, Sailing

  "A Tarpaulin Muster".

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• I was born in the breezes, and I had studied the sea as perhaps few men have studied it, neglecting all else.

  Joshua Slocum

  Men, Sea Breeze, Sailing

  Joshua Slocum (2009). “The Annotated Sailing Alone Around the World”, p.2, Sheridan House, Inc.

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• There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

  John Ruskin

  Change, Running, Rainy Day

  "The Use Of Life". Book by John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury. Chapter 4: "Recreation", 1894.

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• The sea finds out everything you did wrong.

  Francis Stokes

  Sea, Sailing, Boat

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• Whenever your preparations for the sea are poor; the sea worms its way in and finds the problems.

  Francis Stokes

  Sea, Sailing, Preparation

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• Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.

  Joseph Conrad

  Inspirational, Funny, Wise

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• There are only two colors to paint a boat, black or white, and only a fool would paint a boat black.

  Nathanael Greene Herreshoff

  Color, Two, White

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• I hate storms, but calms undermine my spirits.

  Bernard Moitessier

  Inspirational, Funny, Hate

  Bernard Moitessier (1995). “The Long Way”, p.62, Sheridan House, Inc.

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• later down the road of life, i made the discovery that salt water was also good for the mental abrasions one inevitably acquires on land.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Discovery, Land, Water

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• Being hove to in a long gale is the most boring way of being terrified I know.

  Donald Hamilton

  Long, Sailing, Way

  Donald Hamilton (1980). “Cruises with Kathleen”, David McKay Company

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• There's no such thing as bad weather - only the wrong clothes.

  Billy Connolly

  Being Happy, Running, Adventure

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