Sailing and the sea Quotes · Page 2

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

— Hammond Innes

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

— Bob Bitchin

hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic...

— Van Morrison

For one thing, I was no longer alone; a man is never alone with the wind-and the boat made three.

— Hilaire Belloc

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

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

— Ted Turner

You do not ask a tame seagull why it needs to disappear from time to time toward the open sea. It goes,…

— Bernard Moitessier

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

— Ernest K. Gann

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

— Herman Melville

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

— Nathanael Greene Herreshoff

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

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

— Francis Chichester

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

— Hugo Vihlen

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

— Joshua Slocum

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

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

— Francis Stokes

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

— Francis Chichester

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

— Charles Davis

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

— Edward Gibbon

I wanted freedom, open air and adventure. I found it on the sea.

— Alain Gerbault

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— Paul Cayard

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

— Donald Hamilton

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

— Nicholas Monsarrat

Until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore, you will not know the terror of being forever lost at…

— Charlie Cook

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

— Ernest Hemingway