“The port is just a cemetery for ships who love adventure, storms and waves!”
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Ships At Sea Quotes
Source: The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton’s Endurance
“Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.”
Source: Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin ...
Source: The Poetical Works of Edmund Clarence Stedman
Source: Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856
“And the winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.”
Source: Desert
“There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.”
“A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.”
“A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company”
“Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.”
“Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.”
Source: The works of Thomas Moore, comprehending all his melodies, ballads, etc
“A ship is always referred to as 'she' because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.”
“To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7
“The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.”
Source: Parnassus On Wheels
“For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It's always our self we find in the sea.”
Source: A Child's Garden of Verses (Sparklesoup Classics)
“I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
Source: Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…
“At sea, I learned how little a person needs, not how much.”
“There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.”
Source: Lord Jim
“To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go.”
Source: The Voyages of Joshua Slocum
“Men in a ship are always looking up, and men ashore are usually looking down.”
“For one thing, I was no longer alone; a man is never alone with the wind-and the boat made three.”
Source: Hills and the Sea
“Wind is to us what money is to life on shore.”
Source: Wanderer
“He who lets the sea lull him into a sense of security is in very grave danger.”
“It's out there at sea that you are really yourself.”
Source: Great voyages in small boats: solo circumnavigations