Sail Quotes

512 Sail quotes by 385 unique authors

There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is--to teach; the function of the second… — Thomas de Quincey
The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats; Chambers of the great are jails, And head-winds right for royal sails. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There's not a ship that sails the ocean, But every climate, every soil, Must bring its tribute, great or small, And help to build the… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
She comes majestic with her swelling sails, The gallant Ship: along her watery way, Homeward she drives before the favouring gales; Now flirting at their… — Robert Southey
But oars alone can ne'er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost. — William Cowper
Me howling blasts drive devious, tempest-tossed, / Sails ripped, seams opening wide, and compass lost. — William Cowper
If hindrances obstruct the way, Thy magnanimity display. And let thy strength be seen: But O, if Fortune fill thy sail With more than a… — William Cowper
Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. — Alexander Pope
The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the wind… — Joseph Conrad
He who has suffered shipwreck, fears to sail Upon the seas, though with a gentle gale. — Robert Herrick
It's hard to tell / if we close our eyes or if night / opens in us other starred eyes, / if it burrows into… — Pablo Neruda
And over the pond are sailing Two swans all white as snow; Sweet voices mysteriously wailing Pierce through me as onward they go. They sail… — Heinrich Heine
Sundown. The distressed sloop, its mainmast shattered by lightning, its sails ripped by the winds of the open sea, drifted into the small, quiet beach… — Robert Ludlum
But the 3% who have taken the time and exercised the discipline to decide on a destination and to chart a course sail straight and… — Earl Nightingale
Praise be to Nero's Neptune The Titanic sails at dawn And everybody's shouting "Which Side Are You On?" And Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot Fighting… — Bob Dylan
Those who never sail stormy waters are the quickest and harshest judges of bad seamanship. — Susan Glaspell
Into the sunset's turquoise marge The moon dips, like a pearly barge; Enchantment sails through magic seas, To fairland Hesperides, Over the hills and away. — Madison Cawein
Mastery is the rudder, Mystery is the sail and Magic the wind to move you in your chosen direction. — Jack White
Windmills, which are used in the great plains of Holland and North Germany to supply the want of falling water, afford another instance of the… — Hermann von Helmholtz
He gained a world; he gave that world Its grandest lesson: "On! sail on!" — Joaquin Miller

Who Wrote These Sail Quotes

385 authors contributed a total of 512 Sail Quotes, led by these top contributors: