Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Penn

Have a care, therefore, where there is more sail than ballast.

W. S. Gilbert

The happiest hour a sailor sees Is when he's down At an inland town, With his Nancy on his knees, yo ho! And his arm around her waist!

Tracee Ellis Ross

Nothing goes to windward like a 747.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

To reach a port we must set sail

Luanne Rice

A good sailor knows everything is always changing.

P. J. O'Rourke

A dugout is much superior to a conventional manufactured canoe because you can get soaking wet without bothering to capsize it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is time to be old To take in sail.

I used to own a dingy and can still sail one if pushed, but I like the pleasure boats.

James Spithill

If you're not getting close to capsize, you're provably not pushing hard enough

Emily Dickinson

The sailor cannot see the north / but knows the needle can.

Dave Barry

He's a boating enthusiast, although that phrase seems too weak to describe the level of his interest, kind of like describing someone as a heroin fancier.

Dave Barry

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

Sailboats are the slowest form of transportation on Earth with the possible exeption of airline flights that go through O'Hare.

I sailed around Europe and lived with the Karen tribe in Thailand for a month.

We're still sailing right now. We've done nothing yet.

Edward Heath

I have no interest in sailing around the world. Not that there is any lack of requests for me to do so.

The three sailors died. One Sea Tiger cadre was injured.

Dennis Conner

I've never sailed a schooner. Never even been on one.

Charles Kingsley

Three fishers went sailing away to the west,/ Away to the west as the sun went down.

Elizabeth Bishop

Ports are necessities, like postage stamps or soap, but they seldom seem to care what impressions they make.

Gary Jobson

Every sailor is doing something at every moment. There is no letup.

Alexander Dale Oen

Nothing comes sailing by itself.

Andrew Jackson

You are uneasy; you never sailed with me before, I see.

Robert Bork

It is a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel.

Thomas Mallon

The romantic appeal of solar sailing has ensured that its advocates consistently come from the worlds of both science fiction and science fact.

Johnny Depp

Thats what a ship is, you know. Its not a keel and a hull and a deck and sails. Thats what a ship needs. But what a ship is. What the Black Pearl really is . . . is freedom.

John Ruskin

Living without an aim, is like sailing without a compass.

Will Carleton

If we who have sailed togetherFlit out of each other's view,The world will sail on, I think,Just as it used to do.

Fernando Pessoa

Sailing is necessary, living is not necessary.

Christopher Columbus

I'm telling you that India is that way, now set my course.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The moral earth, too, is round! The moral earth, too, has its antipodes! The antipodes, too, have their right to exist! There is still another world to be discovered--and more than one! Set sail, you philosophers!

Who is staring at the sea is already sailing a little.

Fritz Sauckel

I'm a sailor, not a politician.