Nautical Quotes · Page 3

It's remarkable how quickly a good and favorable wind can sweep away the maddening frustrations of shore living.

— Ernest K. Gann

“I phoned the Admiral back. 'It's no use, Admiral, the French speak nothing but French.' There was a short pause on the…

— Tim Fitzhigham

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

— Ernest K. Gann

And after two days in civilization we realized we could never stay for long and started to plan our next adventure.

— Bob Bitchin

“The cork was in the bottle. He and the Atropos were trapped.”

— C.S. Forester

Bad cooking is responsible for more trouble at sea than all other things put together.

— Thomas Fleming Day

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

— Francis Chichester

The days pass happily with me wherever my ship sails.

— Joshua Slocum

I've been reading and researching various aspects of history - Dickens' London, Nelson's sea battles, Magellan's nautical explorations, the weapons and battles…

— Gary Paulsen

I once knew a writer who, after saying beautiful things about the sea, passed through a Pacific hurricane, and he became a…

— Joshua Slocum

The ocean is an object of no small terror.

— Edmund Burke

The best that science can devise and that naval organization can provide must be regarded only as an aid, and never as…

— Chester W. Nimitz

The cabin of a small yacht is truly a wonderful thing; not only will it shelter you from a tempest, but from…

— Lewis Francis Herreshoff

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

— Herman Melville

To reach a port we must set sail

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Only fools and passengers drink at sea.

— Alan Villiers

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

— Vito Dumas

One cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.

— Richard Francis Burton

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

— John Masefield

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

— Ernest Hemingway

The sea drives truth into a man like salt.

— Hilaire Belloc

The thing I realized this last few days is that the earth is a big place.

— Paul Cayard

“Puddings, my dear sir?' cried Graham. Puddings. We trice 'em athwart the starboard gumbrils, when sailing by and large.”

— Patrick O'Brian

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

— Francis Chichester

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

— Brooks Atkinson