All of our Quotes

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
—Vincent Van Gogh life sailing

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.
—Vincent Van Gogh life

Normality is a paved road. It's comfortable to walk on but no flowers grow on it.
—Vincent Van Gogh life

I don't know who named them swells. There's nothing swell about them. They should have named them awfuls.
—Hugo Vihlen

There is little man has made that approaches anything in nature, but a sailing ship does. There is not much man has made that calls to all the best in him, but a sailing ship does.
—Allan Villiers

Traveling is like gambling: it is ever connected with winning and losing, and generally where least expected we receive more or less than we hoped for.
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe travel

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe philosophy

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe government

There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of a voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved.
—Ludwig Von Mises economics

He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
—Ludwig Von Mises government

There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men.
—Ludwig Von Mises government

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.
—Kurt Vonnegut life

True terror is to wake up one day and discover that your high school class is running the country.
—Kurt Vonnegut government

The fishermen rowing homeward in the dusk, do not consider the stillness through which they move. So I, since feelings drown should no more ask for the safe twilight which your calm hands gave. And the night, urger of old lies winked at by stars that sentry the humped hills, should hear no secret faring-forth; time knows that bitter and sly sea, and love raises walls. Yet others who now watch my progress outward on a sea which is crueler than any word of love, may see in me the calm my passage makes, braving new water in an antique hoax; and the secure from thinking may climb safe to liners hearing small rumours of paddlers drowned near stars.
—Derek Walcott / The Harbour

Dyin’ ain’t much of a livin’, boy.
—Josey Wales / The Outlaw life

We of the sea come to know each other quickly; our loves, like our hates, are born of sudden dangers.
—Lew Wallace / Ben-Hur sailing

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
—William Arthur Ward sailing

Freedom and Property Rights are inseparable. You can’t have one without the other.
—George Washington government

A bird sitting on a tree is never afraid of the branch breaking, because her trust is not on the branch but on it's own wings.
—Denzel Washington life

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
—George Washington freedom government