Sailing Quotes - Page 20

• But America is a great, unwieldy Body. Its Progress must be slow. It is like a large Fleet sailing under Convoy. The fleetest Sailors must wait for the dullest and slowest. Like a Coach and six-the swiftest Horses must be slackened and the slowest quickened, that all may keep an even Pace.

  John Adams

  Horse, America, Waiting

  John Adams (1856). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.176

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• What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive: the white ball sailing up into the sky, reaching its apex, falling and finally dropping to the turf, just the way I planned it.

  Arnold Palmer

  Art, Fall, Golf

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• To expel hunger and thirst there is no necessity of sitting in a palace and submitting to the supercilious brow and contumelious favour of the rich and great there is no necessity of sailing upon the deep or of following the camp What nature wants is every where to be found and attainable without much difficulty whereas require the sweat of the brow for these we are obliged to dress anew j compelled to grow old in the field and driven to foreign mores A sufficiency is always at hand

  Seneca the Younger

  Hands, Sweat, Dresses

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• You have to be careful on the deck, because of the "hatches," which are holes placed around a sailboat at random to increase the insurance rates.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Boat, Increase

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.93, Crown Archetype

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• You mustn't miss the moment. There's only one first sailing into Rio harbor.

  Bette Davis

  Meaningful, Missing, Firsts

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• There was once a little girl who was so very intelligent that her parents feared that she would die. But an aged aunt, who had crossed the Atlantic in a sailing-vessel, said, 'My dears, let her marry the first man she falls in love with, and she will make such a fool of herself that it will probably save her life.

  Edith Wharton

  Girl, Falling In Love, Aunt

  Edith Wharton (2001). “Collected Stories, 1891-1910”

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• It was not easy victory in the America Cup. Our boys spent years experimenting with different designs for their boat before they came up with the innovative idea of having a submerged nuclear submarine tow it.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Boys, Years

  Dave Barry (1994). “The World According to Dave Barry”, Outlet

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• The stars are the jewels of the night, and perchance surpass anything which day has to show. A companion with whom I was sailing one very windy but bright moonlight night, when the stars were few and faint, thought that a man could get along with them,-though he was considerably reduced in his circumstances,-that they were a kind of bread and cheese that never failed.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Stars, Night, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1261, Delphi Classics

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• You have discovered the spiritual universe. Many others have discovered this same world, but each must make the discovery for himself. You are going to have a lot of joy sailing around this world of yours. Don't fight the opinions of others, or waste your time arguing over these things. Follow the inward gleam of your consciousness and you will arrive.

  Ernest Holmes

  Spiritual, Fighting, Discovery

  Ernest Holmes (1948). “This thing called you”

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• 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, World

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

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• It takes a minimum of six people, working in close harmony, to successfully flush a nautical toilet. That's why those old ships carried such large crews.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, People, Nautical

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.90, Crown Archetype

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• Our future is like that of the passengers on a small pleasure boat sailing quietly above the Niagara Falls, not knowing that the engines are about to fail.

  James Lovelock

  Fall, Knowing, Environmental

  "The Revenge of Gaia". Interview with James Lovelock, www.theguardian.com. 2006.

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• Here in Miami, on weekends, amusement-seekers will come to the marina, set up folding chairs, and spend a highly entertaining day watching boat owners perform comical maneuvers such as forgetting to set their parking brakes and having their cars roll down the ramp and disappear, burbling gaily, below the surface.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Weekend, Car

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.88, Crown Archetype

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• I shared this insight with some other boat owners, and they all agreed that, definitely, putting your boar into the water is asking for trouble. Most of them have had their boats sitting in their driveways long enough to be registered historical landmarks.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Long, Water

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• Marketing today is much more like sailing than driving. Your boat is the brand. If you point your boat in the right direction, follow the winds/currents, and steer, you will get the boat to go where you want it. Marketers should become the wind, but accept that they’re at the mercy of the currents and weather

  Steve Rubel

  Wind, Weather, Marketing

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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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• Say, it's only a paper moon, Sailing over a cardboard sea, But it wouldn't be make believe, If you believed in me.

  Billy Rose

  Believe, Moon, Sea

  "It's Only a Paper Moon" (song) (1933). Cowritten with E. Y. Harburg.

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• Unless you really understand the water, and understand the reason for being on it, and understand the love of sailing and the feeling of quietness and solitude, you don't really belong on a boat anyway. I think Hemingway said one time that the sea is the last free place on earth.

  Humphrey Bogart

  Thinking, Sea, Water

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• True freedom has more to do with following the North Star than going whichever way the wind blows.  Sometimes it seems like freedom is blowing with the winds of the day, but that kind of freedom is really an illusion.  It turns your boat in circles.  Freedom is sailing toward your dreams.

  Mary Pipher

  Dream, Stars, Blow

  Mary Pipher (2005). “Reviving Ophelia”, p.229, Penguin

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• Not so much two ships passing in the night as two ships sailing together for a time but always bound for different ports.

  P. D. James

  Night, Two, Together

  P. D. James (2008). “The Lighthouse”, p.276, Faber & Faber

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• i wish i was away in Ingo far across the briny sea sailing over deepest waters where neither care nore worry trouble me

  Helen Dunmore

  Sea, Water, Worry

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• The act of imagination is the opening of the system so that it shows new connections. Every act of act of imagination is the discovery of likenesses between two things which were thought unlike. An example is Newton’s thinking of the likeness between the thrown apple and moon sailing majestically in the sky. Hence, the ‘discovery’ of the laws of gravity.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Moon, Thinking, Discovery

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• It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Sea, Two, Stories

  Jorge Luis Borges (2000). “Brodie's report: including the prose fiction from In praise of darkness”

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• I know enough about Satan to realize that he will have all his weapons ready for determined opposition.  He would be a missionary simpleton who expected plain sailing in any work of God.

  James O. Fraser

  Missionary, Would Be, Weapons

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• Much can they praise the trees so straight and high, The sailing pine,the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm, the poplar never dry, The builder oak, sole king of forests all, The aspin good for staves, the cypress funeral, The laurel, meed of mighty conquerors And poets sage, the fir that weepest still, The yew obedient to the bender's will, The birch for shafts, the sallow for the mill, The myrrh sweet-bleeding in the bitter wound, The warlike beech, the ash for nothing ill, The fruitful olive, and the platane round, The carver holm, the maple seldom inward sound.

  Edmund Spenser

  Sweet, Kings, Funeral

  1590 The Faerie Queen, bk.1, canto 1, stanzas 8-9. plantan=plane tree; holme=holly.

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