Boats and sailing Quotes

The goal is not to sail the boat, but rather to help the boat sail herself.

— John Rousmaniere

I must go down to the sea again For the call of the running tide It's a wild call and a clear…

— John Masefield

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

— Herman Melville

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

There is nothing -- absolutely nothing -- half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. In or out of…

— Kenneth Grahame

There is a tide in the affairs of men

— William Shakespeare

I must down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life, To the gull's way and the whale's way where the…

— John Masefield

The chance for mistakes is about equal to the number of crew squared.

— Ted Turner

The sea finds out everything you did wrong.

— Francis Stokes

There are only two colors to paint a boat, black or white, and only a fool would paint a boat black.

— Nathanael Greene Herreshoff

To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest.

— Anonymous

If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better…

— E. B. White

To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go.

— Joshua Slocum

I am a citizen of the most beautiful nation on earth, a nation whose laws are harsh yet simple, a nation that…

— Bernard Moitessier

Out of sight of land the sailor feels safe. It is the beach that worries him.

— Charles Davis

O Captain! My Captain! our fearful trip is done.

— Walt Whitman

Wind is to us what money is to life on shore.

— Sterling Hayden

The ocean has always been a salve to my soul.

— Jimmy Buffett

Sailors, with their built in sense of order, service and discipline, should really be running the world.

— Nicholas Monsarrat

There is a time in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.

— William Shakespeare

I don't know who named them swells. There's nothing swell about them. They should have named them awfuls.

— Hugo Vihlen

There is little man has made that approaches anything in nature, but a sailing ship does. There is not much man has…

— Alan Villiers

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

— Tristan Jones

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

— Robin Lee Graham