Quotes tagged with 'sailing'

Never approach a dock faster than you are willing to hit it.
—Unknown Sailor sailing

Cruisers’ plans are written in the sand at low tide.
—Unknown Sailor sailing

Mackerel skies and mares tails, soon will be time to shorten sails.
—Old Sailor Proverb sailing

Below 50 degrees south there is no law. Below 60 degrees south there is no God.
—Old Sailor Proverb adventure god sailing

One of the best temporary cures for pride and affection is seasickness.
—Harry Wheeler Show sailing

To young men contemplating a voyage, I'd say go.
—Joshua Slocum life sailing

The days pass happily with me wherever my ship sails.
—Joshua Slocum sailing

I was born in the breezes, and I had studied the sea as perhaps few men have studied it, neglecting all else.
—Joshua Slocum sailing

When you see the Southern Cross for the first time you understand now why you came this way.
—Stephen Stills / CSN - 1982 adventure sailing

The sea finds out everything you did wrong.
—Francis Stokes sailing

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
—Rabindranath Tagore sailing

The sail, the play of its pulse so like our own lives: so thin and yet so full of life, so noiseless when it labors hardest, so noisy and impatient when least effective.
—Henry David Thoreau freedom sailing

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve always imagined.
—Henry David Thoreau life sailing

When I'm playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for whales.
—Mark Twain / Life on the Mississippi sailing

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

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

There are more sharks on the land than in the sea.
—Neil Wheatley life sailing

If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.
—E. B. White sailing

She watched the gap between ship and shore grow to a huge gulf. Perhaps this was a little like dying, the departed no longer visible to the others, yet both still existed, only in different worlds.
—Susan Wiggs / The Charm School sailing