Mast Quotes

43 quotes by 40 authors

In every man there is a hidden child which is called the urge to create and he prefers as play things and serious things not… — Christian Morgenstern
The scene fascinated me: a round straw hat; the funnel leaning left, the stairway leaning right; the white drawbridge, its railings made of chain; white… — Alfred Stieglitz
Public opinion is the pennant on a nation's mast which shows the politician and the editor how to trim the sails. — Austin O'Malley
Patriotism! It is used to define so many diversities, to justify so many wrongs, to compass so many ends, that its life is killed out;… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Have Jesus always for your patron, His Cross for a mast on which you must spread your resolutions as a sail. Your anchor shall be… — Saint Francis de Sales
His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral were but a wand, He… — John Milton
Nail the colours to the mast! That is the right thing to do, and, therefore, that is what we must do, and do it now.… — Charles Studd
I didn't want a guru or a kung fu master or a spiritual director. I didn't want to become a sorcerer or learn the zen… — Daniel Quinn
Life is cruel. Why should the afterlife be any different? I offer you a choice. Join my crew...and postpone the judgment. One hundred years before… — Davy Jones
Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast, Ready with every nod to tumble down Into the fatal bowels of the deep. — William Shakespeare
Look atÂ The Adventure. A boat by night is a wonderful sight. This is the way to start a new life, with a hurricane lamp… — Tove Jansson
As I look back, I feel a touch of pride at my younger self's dedication to literature, which gave him the strength of mind to… — Salman Rushdie
A man never is happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so; he seldom attains his… — Arthur Schopenhauer
A tempest ceases, a cyclone passes over, a wind dies down, a broken mast can be replaced, a leak can be stopped, a fire extinguished,… — Victor Hugo
He was sailing over a boundless expanse of sea, with a blood-red sky above, and the angry waters, lashed into fury beneath, boiling and eddying… — Charles Dickens
We seem to be riding on the top of the highest mast of the tallest ship; and yet at the same time we know that… — Virginia Woolf
Stood for his country's glory fast, And nailed her colors to the mast! — Walter Scott
Haul up the flag, you mourners, Not half-mast but all the way; The funeral is done and disbanded; The devil's had the final say. — Karl Shapiro
By the way, I don't mean to pick nits here, but Obama has just ordered the flag at half-mast for 10 days for Mandela. He… — Rush Limbaugh
I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there… — Henry David Thoreau

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