Captains Quote by Andy Partridge

“He’d dive deeper and deeper into the calming depths of the sea, safe from the storms on the surface. And when he found himself…

— Jasun Ether

A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there.

— Ami Ayalon

“He found himself in the strange predicament all sailors share: essentially he belonged neither to the land nor to the sea. Possibly a man…

— Yukio Mishima

It is observed at sea that men are never so much disposed to grumble and mutiny as when least employed. Hence an old captain,…

— Samuel Smiles

Man does not drift into goodness...the chance port of an aimless voyage. He must fight ever for his destination.

— Anonymous

“They were furious. Did he not know he might catch cold? Why did he not answer their hail? It was no good his telling…

— Patrick O'Brian

As to hanging, it is no great hardship. For were it not for that, every cowardly fellow would turn pirate and so unfit the…

— Anne Bonny

The man who voyages strange seas must of necessity be a little unsure of himself. It is the man with the flashy air of…

— Fred Hoyle

“Even captains were pawns to the lords of the sea, who moved them – and sacrificed them – wither they would.”

— M. Kei

“On his last voyage he had seemed on the brink of success and had stood in the prow reciting a grand poem of his…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Hence, I conclude, that in boasting himself to be high lifted above a whaleman, in that assertion the pirate has no solid basis to…

— Herman Melville

“To every administrator, in peaceful, unstormy times, it seems that the entire population entrusted to him moves only by his efforts, and in this…

— Leo Tolstoy