Best travel & ships Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“They change their sky, not their mind, who cross the sea. A busy idleness possesses us: we seek a happy life, with ships and carriages: the object of our search is present with us.”

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Author:Horace

“Going on the ship felt like 100 years or one day. Timeless. Beautiful vertigo. It will continue to show up in my work.”

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Author:Wanda Koop

“All the earth is seamed with roads, and all the sea is furrowed with the tracks of ships, and over all the roads and all the waters a continuous stream of people passes up and down - traveling, as they say, for their pleasure. What is it, I wonder, that they go out to see?”

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Book:Safar Nameh: Persian Pictures

Source: Safar Nameh: Persian Pictures

“On board ship there are many sources of joy of which the land knows nothing. You may flirt and dance at sixty; and if you are awkward in the turn of a valse, you may put it down to the motion of the ship. You need wear no gloves, and may drink your soda-and-brandy without being ashamed of it.”

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Book:John Caldigate: Trollope's Works

Source: John Caldigate: Trollope's Works

“A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.”

“Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.”

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Author:Samuel Johnson

“The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.”

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Book:All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography

Source: All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography

“If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.”

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Author:Enoch Powell

“The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only an adventurer; and his sons are born in exile.”

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Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go.”

Source: The Voyages of Joshua Slocum

“Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire that urged adventurers of old to set forth in their sailing-ships for foreign lands.”

“Adventure Bay is a convenient and safe place for any number of ships to take in wood and water during the summer months: but in the winter, when the southerly winds are strong, the surf, on all parts of the shore, makes the landing exceedingly troublesome.”

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Book:The Voyage of the Bounty

Source: The Voyage of the Bounty

“Always stay sharp on railways and cruise ships for transit has a way of making everything clear.”

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Author:Anna Godbersen

“For me, boviscopophobia is an even stronger motive than semi-agoraphobia for staying on the ship when we're in port.”

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Author:David Foster Wallace

“It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.”

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Author:Thucydides

“A cruise ship is a floating town of lazy people.”

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Author:Garrison Keillor

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