“We know of fishing vessels that carry up to twelve different flags on board, and they re-flag their ship at sea,.” KnowsDifferentSeaShipsBoardsFishingFlagsTwelveVesselShips At Sea Author:Claude Martin
“I have observed, on board a steamer, how men and women easily give way to their instinct for flirtation, because water has the power of washing away our sense of responsibility, and those who on land resemble the oak in their firmness behave like floating seaweed when on the sea.” MenWayGivingWaterResponsibilitySeaLandMen And WomenInstinctBehaveBoardsFloatingWashingOaksFirmnessSense Of ResponsibilityFlirtationSeaweedWashing Away Book:Letters to a Friend Source: Letters to a Friend
“As a man-of-war that sails through the sea, so this earth that sails through the air. We mortals are all on board a fast-sailing,never-sinking world-frigate, of which God was the shipwright; and she is but one craft in a Milky-Way fleet, of which God is the Lord High Admiral.” MenWorldWayWarEarthLordAirSeaCraftsMortalsBoardsSailSailingSinkingMilky WayAdmiral Book:White-jacket; Or, The World in the Man-of-war Source: White-jacket; Or, The World in the Man-of-war
“This high official, all allow, is grossly overpaid; there wasn't any Board, and now there isn't any Trade.” SeaTradeBoardsOfficials Author:A. P. Herbert
“I have noticed that most men when they enter a barber shop and must wait their turn, drop into a chair and pick up a magazine. I simply sit down and pick up the thread of my sea wanderings, which began more than fifty years ago and is not quite ended. There is hardly a waiting room in the east that has not served as my cockpit, whether I was waiting to board a train or to see a dentist. And I am usually still trimming sheets when the train starts or drill begins to whine.” MenYearsStillsTurnsWaitingRoomsSeaPicksYears AgoDown AndTrainEastMagazinesWanderBoardsFiftyShopsChairsThreadSheetsDentistDrillsBarbersWaiting RoomsTrimmingCockpitBarber Shop Author:E. B. White
“My wife's brother has a little house on a small island in the Baltic Sea, and we go there at Christmas. The 30-minute crossing from the mainland to this island is the most terrifying cruise you'll ever take. They give you a barf bag when you walk on board.” GivingLittlesHouseWalksWifeSeaMinutesBrotherMy WifeBoardsIslandsBagsCrossingsCruise Author:Nick Frost
“He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.” KnowsLoveMayRealityPracticeSeaTheoryMathematicsCastsMathShipsMathematicalBoardsCompassSailorStatisticianSailing ShipsRuddersShips At SeaSailors And The SeaTheory And Practice Author:Leonardo da Vinci