Quote by Bettany Hughes

Greek shipowners like to boast, 'I bought ships at the bottom of the market, and now they're worth ten times as much.' It goes…

— Stelios Haji-Ioannou

“The Spanish fleet was beautiful and terrifying. The great battleships were clouds of sail scudding before the wind while their xebecs and frigates ran…

— M. Kei

“and everything generally made shipshape, which seemed a desirable state of affairs, given that we were in fact aboard a ship.”

— Diana Gabaldon

“There are many so-called glorious and invincible ships now rotting beneath the oceans! Most of them – with high conceit – had thought that…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“...unless our standards of civilization are comfort and contraptions, Athens from (say) 480 to 380 was clearly the most civilized society that has yet existed.”

— H.D.F. Kitto

“The highest hope of Socrates’ peers, of young Athenian men, was to serve Athens by dying for her.”

— Bettany Hughes

“a Marine company or two had less tactical value than a cruiser, let alone a battleship.”

— C.J. Carella

“With this idea, being a man with long experience of the sea (and they certainly have a great advantage over other men in any…

— GarciLaso De la Vega

“The Athenians were the first to lay aside their weapons, and to adopt an easier and more luxurious mode of life;”

— Thucydides

“One who wishes to cross the ocean first builds a ship.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“The great difference between voyages rests not in ships, but in the people you meet on them.”

— Amelia Barr