And the winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Out of sight of land the sailor feels safe. It is the beach that worries him. — Charles Davis Copy Share Image
A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The thing I realized this last few days is that the earth is a big place. — Paul Cayard Copy Share Image
Home is like the ship at sea, Sailing on eternally; Oft the anchor forth we cast, But can never make it fast. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The desert is so vast that no one can know it all. Men go out into the desert, and they are like… — J.M.G. Le Clézio Copy Share Image
Good evening, Mr. and Mrs. America from border to border and coast to coast and all the ships at sea. Let's go… — Walter Winchell Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore, you will not know the terror of being forever lost at… — Charlie Cook 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
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
“The rain is falling all around, It falls on field and tree, It rains on the umbrellas here, And on the ships… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
There is nothing like lying flat on your back on the deck, alone except for the helmsman aft at the wheel, silence… — Errol Flynn Copy Share Image
There is little man has made that approaches anything in nature, but a sailing ship does. There is not much man has… — Alan Villiers Copy Share Image
“When you sell a man a book you don’t sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue—you sell him… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
It was one of those hot, silent nights, when people sit at windows listening for the thunder which they know will shortly… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“A life without an objective is much like a ship at sea with no port in mind. It drifts with the waves… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The President may indeed in one respect resemble the commander of an army in peace, but in another and more essential sense… — Henry Adams 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
Whoever you are, motion and reflection are especially for you, The divine ship sails the divine sea for you. — Walt Whitman 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
We know of fishing vessels that carry up to twelve different flags on board, and they re-flag their ship at sea,. — Claude Martin 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
Men go back to the mountains, as they go back to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and on the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Alas, by what rude fate Our lives, like ships at sea, an instant meet, Then part forever on their courses fleet. — Edmund Clarence Stedman Copy Share Image
