The one good thing about our school was the Cadets; I chose to be in the Navy, purely for the sailor's outfit.… — David Walliams Copy Share Image
I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors.… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
Of all the husbands on the earth, The sailor has the finest berth, For in 'is cabin he can sit, And sail… — Wallace Irwin Copy Share Image
He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“I’m a sailor, and we’re both British,” Lewrie said with a grin. “Of course, we need a dab of mustard.” — Dewey Lambdin 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
“[Do not get too attached to life] for it is like a sailor's leave on the shore and at any time, the… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
TO ALL THE ambulance drivers firewatchers air-raid wardens nurses canteen workers airplane spotters rescue workers mathematicians vicars vergers shopgirls chorus girls librarians… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
A sailor chooses the wind that takes the ship from a safe port. Ah, yes, but once you're abroad, as you have… — Avi Copy Share Image
Who wants that? I'd rather choose to fall in love and be hurt. Sometimes I can't even sleep because I love someone… — Naoko Takeuchi Copy Share Image
The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long head--no intricate game… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Far out in the ocean, where the water is as blue as the prettiest cornflower, and as clear as crystal, it is… — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
My daughter," I said blankly. "I see. Correct me if I am wrong, but I thought it took a man, as well… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
... the basic principles of the military services are unchangeable. Courage and candor, obedience and comradeship, love of fatherland and loyalty to… — Erich Raeder Copy Share Image
I am not afeard, my Heart's-delight," resumed the Captain. "There's been most uncommon bad weather in them latitudes, there's no denyin', and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
They hate kings, they hate priests, they hate soldiers, they hate sailors. They distrust men of science, they denounce the middle classes,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The ocean, whose tides respond, like women's menses, to the pull of the moon, the ocean which corresponds to the amniotic fluid… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Ay," said the Captain, reverentially; "it's a almighty element. There's wonders in the deep, my pretty. Think on it when the winds… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
How odd it is that sewing is thought to be 'women's work' when surgeons, sailors, and cowboys sew too. Yet how many… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
But it's been a great, humbling - and I've been very honored to have the opportunity to serve and to lead and… — Hugh Shelton Copy Share Image
“She had surrendered her virtue at six-and-ten, to a beautiful blond-haired sailor on a trading galley up from Lys. He only knew… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
You grow up real quick, a half-Mexican in a sailor's suit, because I'd be riding the streetcar to school everyday - minding… — Al Madrigal Copy Share Image
The Hawaiian Islands were discovered by hardy Polynesian sailors, who crossed thousands of miles of open ocean in primitive canoes, braving violent… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“A costume party… great… a chance for the bimbos to whore themselves out with no penalty of conscience. I found myself excruciatingly… — Bruce Crown Copy Share Image
When engaged in safe occupations, and living in healthy countries, men are much more apt to be frugal, than in unhealthy, or… — John Rae Copy Share Image
The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most. The power which the sea requires in the sailor makes a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The woods are never solitary--they are full of whispering, beckoning, friendly life. But the sea is a mighty soul, forever moaning of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
President Bush, yes, spent money like a drunken sailor, and left the nation with a record $400-billion deficit. President Obama, however, is… — Paul Kengor Copy Share Image
Let America add Mexico to Texas, and pile Cuba upon Canada; let the English overswarm all India, and hang out their blazing… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Smooth seas don't produce skillful sailors.' It's the rought waters that train us to e His disciples. He uses the turbulent times… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In 'Surprised by Grace: God's Relentless Pursuit of Rebels,' I retell the story of Jonah and show how Jonah was just as… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
When our sailors in the Persian Gulf accidentally strayed into Iranian waters, that could have sparked a major international incident. Some folks… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
One can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. For a… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Shortly after Christopher Columbus and his sailors returned from their voyage to the New World, a horrifying new disease began to make… — Peter Lewis Allen Copy Share Image
We're all like the little sailor. From the harbors we hear the strains of accordions and the murky soapy noises of the… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
Confronted by too much emptiness ... the brain invents. Loneliness creates company as thirst creates water. How many sailors have been wrecked… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
My piano is to me what a ship is to the sailor, what a steed is to the Arab. It is the… — Franz Liszt Copy Share Image
The church is a sort of hospital for men's souls, and as full of quackery as the hospital for their bodies. Those… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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