Sailing Quotes · Page 5

The sea hates a coward.

— Eugene O'Neill

“May tropic winds fill your sails”

— Gordon England

I'll do business with anyone, but I'll only go sailing with gentlemen.

— J. P. Morgan

I can't control the wind but I can adjust the sail.

— Ricky Skaggs

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

— Thomas Fleming Day

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

— Hammond Innes

“Just because I am paranoid does not mean that someone is not out to get me”

— Don Darkes

We are the boat, we are the sea, I sail in you, you sail in me

— Lorre Wyatt

Hoist up sail while gale doth last, Tide and wind stay no man's pleasure.

— Robert Southwell

There is but a plank between a sailor and eternity.

— Thomas Gibbons

“There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes to where life is not painful; nor is there…

— Fernando Pessoa

The world is like a vast sea: mankind like a vessel sailing on its tempestuous bosom. ... [T]he sciences serve us for…

— Oliver Goldsmith

A Father Is Neither An Anchor To Hold Us Back Nor A Sail To Take Us There But A Guiding Light Whose…

— Anonymous

“He is a man without a past sailing in a strange sea in a world where the stars have come loose in…

— Doug Dorst J. J. Abrams

We returned home, after these experiments, with the conviction that sailing flight was not the exclusive prerogative of birds.

— Otto Lilienthal

When I go abroad I always sail from Boston because it is such a pleasant place to get away from.

— Oliver Herford

“For I say there is no other thing that is worse than the sea is for breaking a man, even though he…

— Homer

On the Trans-Atlantic Single-handed Race Mr Owen Smithers has been disqualified for using both hands.

— Heikki Luoma

Perhaps there lives some dreamy boy, untaught In schools, some graduate of the field or street, Who shall become a master of…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I met some people who help in an archeological project in the South Pacific, between sailing to the Marquesas, which is an…

— Robert Plant

You seemed to me to be soaring far up in the blue - to be sailing in the bright light, over the…

— Henry James

The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing…

— Noam Chomsky

When all moves equally (says Pascal), nothing seems to move as in a vessel under sail; and when all run by common…

— Charles Caleb Colton

It is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, ina government ship, with five hundred men and…

— Henry David Thoreau

My mother is massively into sailing, so we always had Musto clothes, and it went on from there, really. I wouldn't say…

— Zara Phillips

It's never going to be a smooth sailing ship, there's going to be ups and downs and I think one of the…

— Patty Mills

But although we have noticed the ark as being the first ship, we cannot with propriety place it in the front of…

— R. M. Ballantyne

Everyone, you know, during crises times, is much more focused on, okay, how do we get the boat completely seaworthy, sailing along…

— Reid Hoffman

WE two boys together clinging, One the other never leaving, Up and down the roads going, North and South excursions making, Power…

— Walt Whitman

“They loved the sea. They taught themselves to sail, to navigate and read the weather. Without their mother's knowledge and long before…

— James Carlos Blake

“Whatever the water touched was riparian: that moist layer of air and rich earth along the shore was an Eden for many…

— Brian K. Friesen

“The first glance at the pillow showed me a repulsive sentinel perched upon each end of it--cockroaches as large as peach leaves--fellows…

— Mark Twain

They that go down to the sea in ships' see strange things, but what they tell is oft-times stranger still. A faculty…

— Gertrude Bacon

Romance isn't just about roses or killing dragons or sailing a kayak around the world. It's also about chocolate chip cookies and…

— Steve Kluger

“All you know is you must change sail to catch it.”

— Stephanie Hemphill

I like to watch the boats sailing out into the Channel.

— Victor Wanyama

“Charter boats are like books with no covers.”

— Tania Aebi

I wanted to be a doctor in sports medicine; I was into sailing and all that sort of thing.

— Christopher Atkins

I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship.

— Charles Darwin

My dad bought us boats. I think he thought sailing was a wholesome way to spend time.

— Charles Ray