The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The thing I realized this last few days is that the earth is a big place. — Paul Cayard Copy Share Image
Being hove to in a long gale is the most boring way of being terrified I know. — Donald Hamilton Copy Share Image
Sailors, with their built in sense of order, service and discipline, should really be running the world. — Nicholas Monsarrat Copy Share Image
There is a time in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Out of sight of land the sailor feels safe. It is the beach that worries him. — Charles Davis Copy Share Image
And the winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A small craft in an ocean is, or should be, a benevolent dictatorship. — Tristan Jones Copy Share Image
O Captain my Captain! our fearful trip is done, / The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Off Cape Horn there are but two kinds of weather, neither one of them a pleasant kind. — John Masefield Copy Share Image
Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The goal is not to sail the boat, but rather to help the boat sail herself. — John Rousmaniere Copy Share Image
Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery! — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
No literature is richer than that of the sea. No story is more enthralling, no tradition is more secure. — Felix Riesenberg Copy Share Image
You do not ask a tame seagull why it needs to disappear from time to time toward the open sea. It goes,… — Bernard Moitessier Copy Share Image
There are only two colors to paint a boat, black or white, and only a fool would paint a boat black. — Nathanael Greene Herreshoff Copy Share Image
It's remarkable how quickly a good and favorable wind can sweep away the maddening frustrations of shore living. — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
And after two days in civilization we realized we could never stay for long and started to plan our next adventure. — Bob Bitchin Copy Share Image
hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic... — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
For one thing, I was no longer alone; a man is never alone with the wind-and the boat made three. — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
He who lets the sea lull him into a sense of security is in very grave danger. — Hammond Innes Copy Share Image
Bad cooking is responsible for more trouble at sea than all other things put together. — Thomas Fleming Day Copy Share Image
