Boat Quotes

848 Boat quotes by 678 unique authors

The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats. — Ernest Hemingway
There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea. — Joseph Conrad
The days pass happily with me wherever my ship sails. — Joshua Slocum
The sail, the play of its pulse so like our own lives: so thin and yet so full of life, so noiseless when it labors… — Henry David Thoreau
Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit. — Brooks Atkinson
To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go. — Joshua Slocum
Some years ago - never mind how long precisely - having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on… — Herman Melville
Men in a ship are always looking up, and men ashore are usually looking down. — John Masefield
Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time. — Joseph Conrad
Any damn fool can navigate the world sober. It takes a really good sailor to do it drunk. — Francis Chichester
Bad cooking is responsible for more trouble at sea than all other things put together. — Thomas Fleming Day
To the question, "When were your spirits at the lowest ebb?" the obvious answer seemed to be, "When the gin gave out." — Francis Chichester
Off Cape Horn there are but two kinds of weather, neither one of them a pleasant kind. — John Masefield
For one thing, I was no longer alone; a man is never alone with the wind-and the boat made three. — Hilaire Belloc
I was born in the breezes, and I had studied the sea as perhaps few men have studied it, neglecting all else. — Joshua Slocum
When I forget how talented God is, I look to the sea. — Whoopi Goldberg
The goal is not to sail the boat, but rather to help the boat sail herself. — John Rousmaniere
Wind is to us what money is to life on shore. — Sterling Hayden
The desire to build a house is the tired wish of a man content thenceforward with a single anchorage. The desire to build a boat… — Arthur Ransome
If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most. — Elwyn Brooks White
I had aches and pains when I played. No player is ever 100 percent, 80 percent, 85 percent. Guys that play 158 or 162 or… — Cal Ripken, Jr.
I want to conquer the unknown. I really, really want to live on the water and captain my own boat. I have dreamed of going… — Suze Orman
Canada should always open its doors to those who are oppressed or in cases of emergency. When Canada offered refuge to 50,000 boat people in… — David Suzuki
No Americans wants to see somebody lose their house because of health bills. Their boat? Maybe. Maybe the boat. But not the house. — P.J. O'Rourke
I have come up at the end of a dive, and the boat was not where I left it. I had to take care of… — Sylvia Earle

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