Captains Quote by Alphonse Karr Download Open image “A widow is like a frigate of which the first captain has been shipwrecked.” — Alphonse Karr ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Captains Firsts Has beens Widows
A widow is a fascinating being with the flavor of maturity, the spice of experience, the piquancy of novelty, the tang of practiced coquetry,… — Helen Rowland Copy Share Image
WIDOW, n. A pathetic figure that the Christian world has agreed to take humorously, although Christ's tenderness towards widows was one of the most… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Your Honour, unless your Honour, without a moment's loss of time, makes sail for the nearest shore, this is a doomed ship, and her… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
...for there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence... — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
As has often been said, a ship is like a lady's watch, always out of repair. — Richard Henry Dana, Jr Copy Share Image
“there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence and as inscrutable as… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day. (1 Timothy 5:5) — Bible Copy Share Image
One ship is very much like another and the sea is always the same. In the immutability of their surroundings the foreign shores, the foreign faces, the changing immensity of life, glide past, veiled not by a sense of mystery but by a slightly disdainful ignorance; for there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself,… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share
A ship is always referred to as 'she' because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder. — Chester W. Nimitz Copy Share Image
The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy. — William Falconer Copy Share Image
Every seaman is not only a navigator, but a merchant and also a soldier. — William Petty Copy Share Image
“The sailors do not mind the arrangement, for they know that this way there will, at the least, be one person who, at the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I do not believe in any wise man until I have heard him say << I doubt it>> three times and << I don’t know >> two times.” — Alphonse Karr Copy Share
Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty. — Alphonse Karr Copy Share Image
If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring. — Alphonse Karr Copy Share Image
Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end. — Alphonse Karr Copy Share Image
If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious. — Alphonse Karr Copy Share Image
I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the… — Alphonse Karr Copy Share Image
Dress is the great business of all women, and the fixed idea of some. — Alphonse Karr Copy Share Image
From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the rack, the thumb-screw, the stake, the persecutions of witchcraft, the whipping of naked women through the streets of Boston, banishment, trials of heresy, the halter about Garrison's neck, Lovejoy's death, the branding of Captain Walker, shouts… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share
If i can't even protect my captain's dream, then whatever ambition i have is nothing but talk.. — Zoro Copy Share
In the Sacramento of the 1950s, it was as though White simply hadn't had time enough to figure Brown out. It was a busy… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
It's really a pity that there are observers who view political events like comic strips. There has to be a Zorro, there has to be a star. No, the problem of Upper Volta is more serious than that. It was a grave mistake to have looked for a man, a star, at all costs, to the point of creating one,… — Thomas Sankara Copy Share
Acting on television is like being asked by the captain to entertain the passengers while the ship goes down. — Peter Ustinov Copy Share Image
I was 35 years old and in a position to take a shot at whatever I wanted to try. The Air Force said I… — Jerry Doyle Copy Share Image
Christianity, righty understood, is utterly unlike religion that man invents. It is so completely contrary to the way man does things that it must… — Richard Halverson Copy Share Image
In high school, my sister went out with the captain of the chess team. My parents loved him... They figured that any guy that… — Brian Kiley Copy Share Image
Sourav's greatest asset is his ability to communicate. He is a naturally very confident person. He encourages his team, is a great motivator and a born captain. He is not the media's blue eyed boy because he is a very straightforward person, who never minces his words, instead he talks in a no nonsense manner to the press. He shares… — Ravi Shastri Copy Share
I need to gain a lot more experience. I think so much of being a director, other than the technical aspect and the artistry… — Josh Peck Copy Share Image
It is unfortunate when final decisions are made by chieftains headquartered miles away from the front, where they can only guess at conditions and… — Attila the Hun Copy Share Image
But remember that the Captain belongs to the most dangerous enemy to truth and freedom, the solid unmoving cattle of the majority — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
