Headwinds are sore vexations and the more passengers the sorer. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Waves are not measured in feet or inches, they are measured in increments of fear. — Buzzy Trent Copy Share Image
Even now; with a thousand little voyages notched in my belt. I still feel a memorial chill on casting off. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
The goal is not to sail the boat, but rather to help the boat sail herself. — John Rousmaniere Copy Share Image
Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
No literature is richer than that of the sea. No story is more enthralling, no tradition is more secure. — Felix Riesenberg Copy Share Image
A small craft in an ocean is, or should be, a benevolent dictatorship. — Tristan Jones Copy Share Image
Off Cape Horn there are but two kinds of weather, neither one of them a pleasant kind. — John Masefield Copy Share Image
Spirits rise as the sails fill... Gone is the sea's glassy surface, and with it the terrible glare. Close the hatches and… — Jim Moore Copy Share Image
Thats what a ship is, you know. Its not a keel and a hull and a deck and sails. Thats what a… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
There is little man has made that approaches anything in nature, but a sailing ship does. There is not much man has… — Alan Villiers Copy Share Image
There is nothing like lying flat on your back on the deck, alone except for the helmsman aft at the wheel, silence… — Errol Flynn Copy Share Image
Some years ago - never mind how long precisely - having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“All that yohoho stuff's for landlubbers, or it would be if we ever used words like landlubber. Do you know the difference… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I once knew a writer who, after saying beautiful things about the sea, passed through a Pacific hurricane, and he became a… — Joshua Slocum Copy Share Image
Of all the things that man has made, no is so full of interest and charm, none possesses so distinct a life… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
One trend I always go for is nautical: stripes, navy, rope knot belts, gold buckles. — Poppy Delevingne Copy Share Image
Out of sight of land the sailor feels safe. It is the beach that worries him. — Charles Davis Copy Share Image
And the winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Sailors, with their built in sense of order, service and discipline, should really be running the world. — Nicholas Monsarrat Copy Share Image
Being hove to in a long gale is the most boring way of being terrified I know. — Donald Hamilton Copy Share Image
The thing I realized this last few days is that the earth is a big place. — Paul Cayard Copy Share Image
A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I don't know who named them swells. There's nothing swell about them. They should have named them awfuls. — Hugo Vihlen Copy Share Image
Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Give him a fishing lesson and he'll sit in a boat… — Alex Blackwell Copy Share Image
“Puddings, my dear sir?' cried Graham. Puddings. We trice 'em athwart the starboard gumbrils, when sailing by and large.” — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
One cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow. — Richard Francis Burton Copy Share Image
Any damn fool can navigate the world sober. It takes a really good sailor to do it drunk. — Francis Chichester Copy Share Image
