I'm fond of anything that comes from the sea, and that includes sailors. — Janet Flanner Copy Share Image
A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“She was like a mermaid enrapturing me the sailor with all her charms!” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“Red sky at night, sailor’s delight. Red sky at morning, sailor’s warning.” — E.E. Borton Copy Share Image
Statuettes of drunken sailors, velvet pictures of island maidens, plastic seashell lamps made in Taiwan. What contempt the people who think up… — Diane Johnson Copy Share Image
We are like sailors who have to rebuild their ship on the open sea, without ever being able to dismantle it in… — Otto Neurath Copy Share Image
“For I say there is no other thing that is worse than the sea is for breaking a man, even though he… — Homer Copy Share Image
My father was a sailor and our summer vacations were always on a sailboat. I had a little boat before I had… — Ernesto Bertarelli Copy Share Image
The suffix 'naut' comes from the Greek and Latin words for ships and sailing. Astronaut suggests 'a sailor in space.' Chimponaut suggests… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
Only in education, never in the life of farmer, sailor, merchant, physician, or laboratory experimenter, does knowledge mean primarily a store of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Every sailor knows that you can't sail a ship that isn't moving forward, strong leaders understand that to change direction, you first… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
It's not fair to say that Congress spends money like a drunk sailor. At least the sailor is spending his own money! — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“My woman has a wandering eye; Yarrow, thyme and thorn. She eyes the ocean and the sky While stitching sails, forlorn. I… — F.T. McKinstry Copy Share Image
The sailor's life is at the best a life of danger. He pursues honor on the mountain wave and finds it in… — John Tyler Copy Share Image
Sometimes a fog will settle over a vessel's deck and yet leave the topmast clear. Then a sailor goes up aloft and… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
There are a number of places on marine charts where even the most weathered sailors point and say, "Right there, nothing can… — Abby Sunderland Copy Share Image
My first tattoo is a full-on Sailor Jerry situation on my hip - it's a swallow with big spread wings. When I… — Maria Dahvana Headley Copy Share Image
Visually I've always liked the 20s 30s for film. I do these because I like the music. I like the clothes. I… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
It is a pleasant surprise to him (the pure mathematician) and an added problem if he finds that the arts can use… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Start her, now; give 'em the long and strong stroke, Tashtego. Start her, Tash, my boy-start her, all; but keep cool, keep… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
When you sailors see the haven before you, though you were mightily troubled before you could see any land, yet when you… — Jeremiah Burroughs Copy Share Image
“...it was not considered right for a man not to drink, although drink was a dangerous thing. On the contrary, not to… — Eoghan Odinsson Copy Share Image
We seem, these days, much more willing to recognize the perils before us than we were even a decade ago. The newly… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I have already transmitted to Congress the report of the naval court of inquiry on the destruction of the battleship Maine in… — William McKinley Copy Share Image
“I can’t believe this. You go ashore for two hours of trade, and somehow you’ve exchanged an experienced sailor for a governess.”… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
Commemorative stone in the floor of the Chapel of St. George in Westminster Abbey, London, dedicated in 1947: TO THE MEMORY OF… — Robert Baden-Powell Copy Share Image
I have heard what poets write about women. They rhyme and rhapsodize and lie. I have watched sailors on the shore stare… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A politician complaining about the media is like a sailor complaining about the sea. — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
Out of sight of land the sailor feels safe. It is the beach that worries him. — Charles Davis Copy Share Image
“To a fireman, wind is a curse. To a sailor, wind is a blessing.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“No matter how good the sailor, a still breeze will take a man nowhere.” — Loron-Jon Stokes Copy Share Image
