Off Cape Horn there are but two kinds of weather, neither one of them a pleasant kind. — John Masefield Copy Share Image
A small craft in an ocean is, or should be, a benevolent dictatorship. — Tristan Jones Copy Share Image
In the time it takes us to look beyond the lies, we could be sailing in each other's eyes. — Dan Fogelberg Copy Share Image
...arranging the journey was so difficult. Getting home again was much easier. — Thor Heyerdahl Copy Share Image
Spirits rise as the sails fill... Gone is the sea's glassy surface, and with it the terrible glare. Close the hatches and… — Jim Moore Copy Share Image
“Carry me on and on to the edge of the earth, with children's laughter like a wind - full sail, then carry… — Eowyn Ivey Copy Share Image
Writing itself is a bad enough trade, rightly held up to ridicule and contempt by the greater part of mankind, and especially… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
“If you're a sailor, best not know how to swim. Swimming only prolongs the inevitable—if the sea wants you and your time… — James Clavell Copy Share Image
“I grew to judge every purchase by how many bronze screws I could buy for the boat if I didn't spend on… — Lin Pardey Copy Share Image
My sailing system set sail, make it fast, no thoughts of energy or velocity, loll back, let boat drift. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The happiest hour a sailor sees Is when he's down At an inland town, With his Nancy on his knees, yo ho!… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
The man who would be fully employed should procure a ship or a woman, for no two things produce more trouble. — Plautus Copy Share Image
It was not easy victory in the America Cup. Our boys spent years experimenting with different designs for their boat before they… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“In the middle distance, sails were gliding like butterflies, and farther away, ships dotted the mouth of the bay between Awa and… — Haruo Shirane Copy Share Image
I wish I could get all the discourteous drivers on a ship and sail them away and make sure it's a really… — Alvin Martin Copy Share Image
“Cold November nights. It feels as if summer never happened. The beauty of setting sun, moon, and stars. Sailing to nowhere, but… — Fidelis O Mkparu Copy Share Image
An order given in battle, an instruction issued by the master of a sailing ship, a cry for help, are as powerful… — Bronislaw Malinowski Copy Share Image
“Paradise” is a suffering word, grossly overused and ineptly devalued in everyday hype and blurb. Yet, tired as it is, it will… — Andrew Rayner Copy Share Image
The shortest route is not the most direct one, but rather the one where the most favorable winds swell our sails:Mthat is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Pleasure is the rock which most young people split upon; they launch out with crowded sails in quest of it, but without… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“On September 6, 1522, a battered ship appeared on the horizon … A small pilot boat was dispatched to lead the strange… — Laurence Bergreen Copy Share Image
“I wrapped my fingers around the first light I saw and felt all at once so happy and so sad and so… — K.B. Ezzell Copy Share Image
“I have studied many times The marble which was chiseled for me— A boat with a furled sail at rest in a… — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share Image
“What are you doing abovedecks, anyhow?” “The cry went up for all hands.” “You’re not a hand. You’re a passenger.” “I may… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
Much can they praise the trees so straight and high, The sailing pine,the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm, the poplar… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
“the presence of an old salt aboard the Elizabeth Seaman was profoundly reassuring. “Iron men in wooden boats,” they were called, as… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
When young Galileo, then a student at Pisa, noticed one day during divine service a chandelier swinging backwards and forwards, and convinced… — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
Have I mentioned that I expect death around every turn, that every blue sky has a safe sailing out of it, that… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
