Port Quotes · Page 4

It is the duty of the ship's captain to make port, cost what it may.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The ship is safest when it is in port, but that’s not what ships were built for.

— Paulo Coelho

Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.

— Samuel Johnson

The Port Elizabeth ground is more of a circle than an oval. It's long and square.

— Trevor Bailey

The man who has a girl in every port is not a sailor but a wholesaler.

— Evan Esar

A ship is safe in the port, but that is not what a ship is for

— Anonymous

Mr. Speaker, Delaware River's regional ports handle approximately 58 million tons of cargo yearly.

— Anonymous

There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.

— Fernando Pessoa

I can find lots of examples where a game won't make you rich, but I can't find a reasonable case where a…

— Ryan C. Gordon

All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason…

— William Shakespeare

No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys; port for men: but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.…

— James Boswell

A good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may…

— John Dryden

A single bomb of this type, carried by boat and exploded in a port, might very well destroy the whole port, together…

— Albert Einstein

If I could time travel into the future, my first port of call would be the point where medical technology is at…

— Neal Asher

“Wild Nights—Wild Nights! Were I with thee Wild Nights should be Our luxury! Futile—the winds— To a heart in port— Done with…

— Emily Dickinson

Some gifted adventurer is always sailing round the world of art and science, to bring home costly merchandise from every port.

— Robert Aris Willmott

The news today that Bush has vowed to veto any legislation that reviews the security implications of the Dubai Port World's potential…

— John Conyers

In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to…

— Henry David Thoreau

But the 3% who have taken the time and exercised the discipline to decide on a destination and to chart a course…

— Earl Nightingale

I do whatever comes my way. But I get burned out on stage. It's a lonely world. I think part of the…

— Zach Galifianakis

Who hath seen the Phantom Ship, Her lordly rise and lowly dip, Careering o'er the lonesome main, No port shall know her…

— Albert Pinkham Ryder

Brooklyn Heights itself is a window on the port. Here, where the perspective is fixed by the towers of Manhattan and the…

— Alfred Kazin

The very best place to be in all the world is St. Mary's parish, Jamaica. And the best spot in St. Mary's…

— Zora Neale Hurston

And now you're off to Port Caynn. Watch them sailor lads. They'll have your skirts up and a babe in your belly…

— Tamora Pierce

If the pilots were in charge, Columbus would still be in port. They believe the assertion that the world is flat.

— Robert Crandall

I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.

— Jack Vance

“Doing things for others gives you a lovely glow." "So does port," I said cynically.”

— Dodie Smith

Common sense is not really so common. The Art of Thinking: Port-Royal Logic

— Antoine Arnauld

“There is no safe port; there are only ports that we feel ourselves safe.”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

If you don't know what port you are sailing to, no wind is favourable.

— Seneca the Younger

My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call.

— Pat Conroy

O friend, never strike sail to a fear! Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.

— Matthew Arnold

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

And let us be frank, the security threats that emanate from our ports come from foreign cargo.

— Dana Rohrabacher

The universe we are living in is not suitable for waiting for anything! Stop waiting and leave your port!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

The boat is safer anchored at the port; but that’s not the aim of boats.

— Paulo Coelho

Tunnels, our ports, our airports - they need work. And there are millions of jobs to be done.

— Hillary Clinton

Mundra Port remains committed towards setting up of world-class port infrastructure and facilities in India.

— Gautam Adani

The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station.

— William Gibson