There never was a great man yet who spent all his life…

The ocean has always been a salve to my soul.

— Jimmy Buffett

And the winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

— Edward Gibbon

Whenever your preparations for the sea are poor; the sea worms its way in and finds the problems.

— Francis Stokes

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

— Tristan Jones

Of all the things that man has made, no is so full of interest and charm, none possesses so distinct a life and character…

— Henry Van Dyke

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

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

— Herman Melville

“...that's the nature of marine life and the inland bays I grew up on. You'd have to be a scientist, a poet and a…

— Jim Lynch

“Houses do fall, people are drowned and left rotting, but the general outline of the town persists, swelling here, shrinking there, like some low…

— Noah Lukeman

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

— Robin Lee Graham

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

— Errol Flynn

I was born in the breezes, and I had studied the sea as perhaps few men have studied it, neglecting all else.

— Joshua Slocum

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

— Hammond Innes

Any damn fool can navigate the world sober. It takes a really good sailor to do it drunk.

— Francis Chichester