All of our Quotes

I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky. And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.
—John Masefield

Off Cape Horn there are but two kinds of weather, neither one of them a pleasant kind.
—John Masefield

Men in a ship are always looking up, and men ashore are usually looking down.
—John Masefield

The "political scientists" who don't know what they did to cause inflation insist they know how to adjust the temperature of the planet.
—Thomas Massie climate economy

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
—W. Somerset Maugham life

When people become educated, you can't control them, you can't frighten them. People who are educated know their own power and don't surrender it to others.
—Jordan Maxwell freedom government

One of the hallmarks of the dangerously stupid is the consistent belief they’ve found great solutions that experts somehow missed.
—Craig Mazin

The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.
—Christopher Mc Candless life sailing

Life is not fair, it never was. it isn't now and it won't ever be. Do not fall into the trap. The entitlement trap, of feeling like you're a victim. You are not.
—Matthew Mc Conaughey philosophy

If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed.
—William Mc Raven / US Navy Admiral inspiration

Can we go downwind now please. I've been hit in the face by a grill pan.
—Julian Megson

I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.
—Herman Melville / Moby Dick

I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
—Herman Melville

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
—H. L. Mencken life sailing

I believe in only one thing and that thing is human liberty.
—H. L. Mencken freedom

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed, and hence clamorous to be lead to safety, by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
—H. L. Mencken government

A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker.
—H. L. Mencken government

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
—H. L. Mencken government

Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted.
—H. L. Mencken government

The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.
—H. L. Mencken government