Pirate Quotes

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  There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Life, Book

  "Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time". Book by Laurence J. Peter, 1977.

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• Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.

  Mark Twain

  Sailing, Good God, Now And Then

  Mark Twain (1875). “Old Times on the Mississippi”, p.2, Library of Alexandria

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• Ships are but boards, sailors but men; there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves, I mean pirates, and thenthere is the peril of waters, winds, and rocks.

  William Shakespeare

  Mean, Men, Rocks

  William Shakespeare (1858). “Shakspere's Werke, herausg. und erklärt von N. Delius. [With] Nachträge und Berichtigungen”

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• Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.

  Johnny Depp

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• Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate

  Johnny Depp

  Gold, Treasure, Sparrows

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• Drinking rum before 10 am makes you a pirate, not an alcoholic.

  Granger Smith

  Drinking, Rum, Alcoholics

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• The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a Pirate.

  Bernard Williams

  Father, Men, Average

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• Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?

  Steve Jobs

  Business, Humorous, Small Jobs

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.68, Prabhat Prakashan

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• I've been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king
  I've been up and down and over and out and I know one thing
  Each time I find myself flat on my face
  I pick myself up and get back in the race

  Frank Sinatra

  Kings, Race, Puppets

  Song: That's Life, Album: That's Life

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• It is a glorious thing To be a Pirate King.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Kings, Glorious

  The Pirates of Penzance act 1 (1879)

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• In civilizations without boats, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure and the police take the place of pirates.

  Michel Foucault

  Dream, Adventure, Civilization

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• Damnation seize my soul if I give you quarters, or take any from you.

  Blackbeard

  Giving, Soul, Damnation

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• The pirate he will sink you with a kiss, he'll steal your heart and sail away.

  Joni Mitchell

  Heart, Kissing, Advice

  Song: The Pirate Of Penance, Album: Song to a Seagull

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• Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit.

  Brooks Atkinson

  Sea, Land, Sailing

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• Parrots have gone a bit quiet since pirates have gone.

  Karl Pilkington

  Gone, Quiet, Parrots

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A captured pirate was brought before Alexander the Great. “How dare you molest the sea?” asked Alexander. “How dare you molest the whole world?” the pirate replied, and continued: “Because I do it with a little ship only, I am called a thief; you, doing it with a great navy, are called an emperor.

  Noam Chomsky

  Sea, Navy, Criminals

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• A pirate spreading misery and ruin over the face of the ocean

  Thomas Jefferson

  Ocean, Insulting, Ruins

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States”, p.147

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• Yes, I am a pirate, two hundred years to late. Cannons don't thunder, there's nothing to plunder, I'm an over forty victim of fate.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Fate, Order, Years

  Jimmy Buffett (2001). “Jimmy Buffett, Guitar Anthology Series: Authentic Guitar TAB Edition”, p.95, Alfred Music

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• I am sorry to see you here, but if you had fought like a man, you needn't be hanged like a dog.

  Anne Bonny

  Dog, Sorry, Men

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• Even pirates, before they attack another ship, hoist a black flag.

  Bela Kiraly

  Black, Flags, Ships

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• The same relation exists between merchant and pirate, who for a long period are one and the same person: where the one function appears to them inadvisable, they exercise the other.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Long, Today, Morality

  "Human, All Too Human".

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• A merry life and a short one shall be my motto.

  Bartholomew Roberts

  Motto, Satiety, Piracy

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• Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly they invent systems which make the future calculable, at least in its main outlines.

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophy, Would Be, Philosopher

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.51, Routledge

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• There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.

  James Russell Lowell

  Ocean, Sea, Wonder

  James Russell Lowell (1864). “Fireside Travels”, p.157

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• When I was about 5 I think, I desperately wanted to be a pirate and have the hat and everything.

  Keira Knightley

  Hate, Thinking, Hats

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