Boats and sailing Quotes

I want a boat that drinks 6, eats 4, and sleeps 2.

— Ernest K. Gann

To reach a port we must set sail

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

— Walt Whitman

The days pass happily with me wherever my ship sails.

— Joshua Slocum

It's out there at sea that you are really yourself.

— Vito Dumas

The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

— Dale Carnegie

The ocean has always been a salve to my soul.

— Jimmy Buffett

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

— Robin Lee Graham

To the question, "When were your spirits at the lowest ebb?" the obvious answer seemed to be, "When the gin gave out."

— Francis Chichester

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

— Francis Stokes

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

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

— Joshua Slocum

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

— Hugo Vihlen

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

— Francis Chichester

Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Give him a fishing lesson and he'll sit in a boat…

— Alex Blackwell

The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats.

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Herman Melville

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

— Errol Flynn

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

— Alan Villiers

If you can not arrive in daylight, then stand off well clear, and wait until dawn. After all, that's one of the…

— Tristan Jones

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

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

— Bernard Moitessier

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

— Kenneth Grahame

The sea finds out everything you did wrong.

— Francis Stokes

The only way to get a good crew is to marry one.

— Eric Hiscock

To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go.

— Joshua Slocum

Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit.

— Brooks Atkinson

When I forget how talented God is, I look to the sea.

— Whoopi Goldberg

There is a tide in the affairs of men

— William Shakespeare

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

— Sterling Hayden

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

— Nicholas Monsarrat

Being hove to in a long gale is the most boring way of being terrified I know.

— Donald Hamilton

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— Edward Gibbon

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, / The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won

— Walt Whitman

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

— Tristan Jones

Off Cape Horn there are but two kinds of weather, neither one of them a pleasant kind.

— John Masefield

Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.

— Joseph Conrad

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

— Anonymous