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Boat Quotes by P.J. O'Rourke
- Who does Bill Clinton think got off the boat and stepped on Plymouth Rock? Peace Corps volunteers?
- The Australian language is easier to learn than boat talk. It has a vocabulary of about six words.
- A dugout is much superior to a conventional manufactured canoe because you can get soaking wet without bothering to capsize it.
- This is the most elaborate and luxurious method of convincing others that you can cook. Take everybody out on your yacht until they're green in…
- I don't think I'll ever be a real boat reporter. My Rolex isn't big enough.
- If the wind is blowing like stink and everything is working right, a twelve-meter sailboat can go eleven and a half or twelve miles an…
- The America's Cup is like driving your Lamborgini to the Gran Prix track to watch the charter buses race.
- There are a lot of mysterious things about boats, such as why anyone would get on one voluntarily.
- In Western Australia they don't even know how to make that vital piece of sailboating equipment, the gin and tonic.
- No Americans wants to see somebody lose their house because of health bills. Their boat? Maybe. Maybe the boat. But not the house.
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- God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or… — Henry Ward Beecher
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