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“There is a rule in sailing where the more maneuverable ship should give way to the less maneuverable craft. I think this is sometimes a good rule to follow in human relationships as well.”

Thinking Way Giving Should Humans Wells Sometimes Ships Crafts Sail Sailing Human Relations Human Relationships

Author:Joyce Brothers

“The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long head”

Long Life Is Games Sailing Sailor Frankness Finesse

Book:Billy Budd, Sailor

Source: Billy Budd, Sailor

“Nowhere else than upon the sea do the days, weeks, and months fall away quicker into the past. They seem to be left astern as easily as the light air-bubbles in the swirls of the ship's wake.”

Light Seems Past Fall Left Air Week Sea Months Ships Bubbles Sailing Swirls

Book:The Mirror of the Sea

Source: The Mirror of the Sea

“It is always fair sailing, when you escape evil.”

Evil Fairs Sailing

Book:Sophocles

Source: Sophocles

“Writing itself is a bad enough trade, rightly held up to ridicule and contempt by the greater part of mankind, and especially by those who do real work, plowing, riding, sailing”

Writing Real Enough Greater Mankind Trade Contempt Riding Sailing Ridicule Real Work Plowing

Book:The Silence of the Sea, and Other Essays

Source: The Silence of the Sea, and Other Essays

“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!”

Hours Arms Towns Knees Sailing Sailor Nancy

Author:W. S. Gilbert

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

Seems Care Impression Sailing Stamps Soap Port Postage Postage Stamps

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“E.B. White's essays are the best things I've read about Maine - especially the one in which he's not sure if he can go out sailing any more in his sloop.”

Ifs White Best Things Not Sure Sailing Essays Maine

Author:Nicholson Baker

“But although we have noticed the ark as being the first ship, we cannot with propriety place it in the front of the history of navigation. After the flood the ark seems to have been soon forgotten, or at least imperfectly remembered, and men reverted to their little canoes and clumsy boats, which sufficed for all their limited wants. It was not until about a thousand years later in the world”

Men World Want Years Firsts Littles Has Beens Seems Fronts Thousand Forgotten Ships Boat Remembered Flood Thousand Years Sailing Clumsy Propriety Ark Navigation

Author:R. M. Ballantyne

“Most sailing ships take what they call trainees, who pay to be part of the crew. The Picton Castle takes people who are absolutely raw recruits. But you can't just ride along. You're learning to steer the ship, navigation; you're pulling lines, keeping a lookout; in the galley you're cooking.”

People Lines Pay Cooking Ships Pulling Crew Sailing Castles Steers Recruit Navigation Sailing Ships Trainees

Author:Billy Campbell

“Sailing heart-ships through broken harbors out on the waves of the night, still the searcher must ride the dark horse racing alone in his fright.”

Heart Stills Poetry Night Dark Broken Horse Wave Ships Racing Sailing Harbors Fright Searchers Horse Racing Dark Horse

Author:Neil Young

“In the time it takes us to look beyond the lies, we could be sailing in each other's eyes.”

Looks Eye Lying Romantic Sailing

Author:Dan Fogelberg