Sailing Quote by Alan Lawrence

“Author says the ineffectual U.S. Navy of two centuries ago lost two thirds as many men to duelist bullets as to sea hazards.”

— Joseph Wheelan

“Sail, sail thy best, ship of democracy, Of value is thy freight, 'tis not the present only, The past is also stored in thee,…

— Walt Whitman

“Out of a fired ship, which by no way But drowning could be rescued from the flame, Some men leap'd forth, and ever as…

— John Donne

“sloop   n. a one-masted sailboat with a fore-and-aft mainsail and a jib.”

— Oxford University Press

“A graveyard of boats, cloaked in the shadows of their storm-beaten sails, rest like long-forgotten tombstones on the edges of the docks.”

— Lee Kelly

I have already transmitted to Congress the report of the naval court of inquiry on the destruction of the battleship Maine in the harbor…

— William McKinley

“Strange and harrowing must be his story; frightful the storm which embraced the gallant vessel on its course, and wrecked it--thus!”

— Mary Shelley

“That was Flint's treasure that we had come so far to seek, and that had cost already the lives of seventeen men from the…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Yard after yard passed by, the berths empty, the grass growing about the sinking keel blocks. And now only the gaunt, dumb poles and…

— George Blake

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So…

— Mark Twain

“Though the harbor is safe, ships were made to sail the sea. The same can be said for you and me.”

— Julie-Anne

“There's a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads onto fortune, omitted, all their voyages end in shallows and…

— William Shakespeare