All of our Quotes

All great adventures have moments that are really crap.
—Ellen Potter life sailing

A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
—Ezra Pound freedom

If you are willing to abandon your principles for convenience or social acceptability, they are not your principles. They are your costume.
—Nitya Prakash freedom

Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.
—Terry Pratchett / A Hat Full of Sky life travel

Science is not about building a body of 'facts'. It is a method for asking awkward questions and subjecting them to a reality-check, thus avoiding the human tendency to believe whatever makes us feel good.
—Terry Pratchett science

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
—Marcel Proust travel

A wise man makes his own decisions. An ignorant man follows public decision.
—Chinese Proverb life philosophy

Raise your sail one foot, and you get ten feet of wind.
—Chinese Proverb sailing

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
—Chinese Proverb philosophy

When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn’t become a king. The palace becomes a circus.
—Turkish Proverb government

Do not judge by appearances, a rich heart may be under a poor coat.
—Scottish Proverb philosophy

There are three truths. there's my truth, your truth and THE truth.
—Chinese Proverb philosophy

There are good ships, there are wood ships, the ships that sail to sea, but the best ships are friendships, and forever may they be.
—Irish Proverb

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
—Syrus Pubilius life sailing

"Many people today are giving away their freedoms, their health and their morality……in an attempt to overcome
their fear of death. The day they decided to give all these things of value away, is the day they really died. Walking around soulless, empty and cowardly is a fate worse than death.
—Unknown Quote covid life

The truth is not for all men, only for those who seek it.
—Ayn Rand freedom life

All depressions are caused by government interference and the cure is always offered to take more of the poison that caused the disaster. Depressions are not the result of a free economy.
—Ayn Rand economics

When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing—when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors—when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you—when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice—you may know that your society is doomed.
—Ayn Rand / Atlas Shrugged, 1957 government life

We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
—Ayn Rand life

The desire to build a house is the tired wish of a man content thenceforward with a single anchorage. The desire to build a boat is the desire of youth, unwilling yet to accept the idea of a final resting place.
—Arthur Ransome sailing