Boats and sailing Quotes

When I forget how talented God is, I look to the sea.

— Whoopi Goldberg

Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit.

— Brooks Atkinson

To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go.

— Joshua Slocum

Wind is to us what money is to life on shore.

— Sterling Hayden

There is a tide in the affairs of men

— William Shakespeare

The only way to get a good crew is to marry one.

— Eric Hiscock

The sea finds out everything you did wrong.

— Francis Stokes

At sea, I learned how little a person needs, not how much.

— Robin Lee Graham

The chance for mistakes is about equal to the number of crew squared.

— Ted Turner

You do not ask a tame seagull why it needs to disappear from time to time toward the open sea. It goes,…

— Bernard Moitessier

There are only two colors to paint a boat, black or white, and only a fool would paint a boat black.

— Nathanael Greene Herreshoff

Bad cooking is responsible for more trouble at sea than all other things put together.

— Thomas Fleming Day

He who lets the sea lull him into a sense of security is in very grave danger.

— Hammond Innes

For one thing, I was no longer alone; a man is never alone with the wind-and the boat made three.

— Hilaire Belloc

I must go down to the sea again For the call of the running tide It's a wild call and a clear…

— John Masefield

I can remain on shore, paralyzed with fear, or I can raise my sails and dip and soar in the breeze.

— Richard Bode

I must down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life, To the gull's way and the whale's way where the…

— John Masefield

If you can not arrive in daylight, then stand off well clear, and wait until dawn. After all, that's one of the…

— Tristan Jones

There is little man has made that approaches anything in nature, but a sailing ship does. There is not much man has…

— Alan Villiers

There is nothing like lying flat on your back on the deck, alone except for the helmsman aft at the wheel, silence…

— Errol Flynn

Some years ago - never mind how long precisely - having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to…

— Herman Melville

I am a citizen of the most beautiful nation on earth, a nation whose laws are harsh yet simple, a nation that…

— Bernard Moitessier

There is nothing -- absolutely nothing -- half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. In or out of…

— Kenneth Grahame

The ocean has always been a salve to my soul.

— Jimmy Buffett

The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

— Dale Carnegie

To reach a port we must set sail

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

I want a boat that drinks 6, eats 4, and sleeps 2.

— Ernest K. Gann

It's out there at sea that you are really yourself.

— Vito Dumas

The days pass happily with me wherever my ship sails.

— Joshua Slocum

O Captain! My Captain! our fearful trip is done.

— Walt Whitman

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

— John Masefield

A small craft in an ocean is, or should be, a benevolent dictatorship.

— Tristan Jones

O Captain my Captain! our fearful trip is done, / The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won

— Walt Whitman

The goal is not to sail the boat, but rather to help the boat sail herself.

— John Rousmaniere

To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest.

— Anonymous

Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.

— Joseph Conrad

Being hove to in a long gale is the most boring way of being terrified I know.

— Donald Hamilton

Sailors, with their built in sense of order, service and discipline, should really be running the world.

— Nicholas Monsarrat

The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats.

— Ernest Hemingway

Out of sight of land the sailor feels safe. It is the beach that worries him.

— Charles Davis