Sail Quotes

512 Sail quotes by 385 unique authors

O you, who in some pretty boat, Eager to listen, have been following Behind my ship, that singing sails along Turn back to look again… — Dante Alighieri
I could not forbear getting up to the top of a little mountain, and looking out to sea, in hopes of seeing a ship :… — Daniel Defoe
I cannot cause light; the most I can do is try to put myself in the path of its beam. It is possible, in deep… — Annie Dillard
The wind of God is always blowing... but you must hoist your sail. — Francois Fenelon
That is because at the close of the day the ship we sail in is the soul, not the body. — Sebastian Barry
I don't understand anything. Life is so strange. I feel like some one who's lived all his life by a duck-pond and suddenly is shown… — W. Somerset Maugham
Take the time to make some sense for what you wanna say, And cast your words away upon the waves. Sail them home with acquiesce… — Noel Gallagher
Sail the main course in a simple sturdy craft. Keep her well stocked with short stories and long laughs. Go fast enough to get there… — Jimmy Buffett
There is no beauty or romance or mystery in the sea except for the men that sail abroad upon it, and those who stay at… — Lord Dunsany
Thus, sped by currents of curiosity afloat the swift river of rumor do secrets sail to strange ports. — Will Eisner
Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Come, my friends Tis not too late to seek a newer world Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows; for my… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
You can't change the wind but you can set your sails. — Billie Joe Armstrong
...we shall board our imagined ship and wildly sail among sacred islands of the mad till death shatters the fabulous stars and makes us real. — Sylvia Plath
On December 8, 1921, when the Leopoldina set sail for Europe, we were on board. Our life together had finally begun. We held on to… — Paula McLain
Strip back the beliefs pasted on by governesses, schools, and states, you find indelible truths at one's core. Rome'll decline and fall again, CortÃ©s'll lay… — David Mitchell
when you lose your sails, row. — Karen White
And if that is the Foremast, what do you think that sail might be called, Mr. Wheeler?" "The Foresail?" "Very good, Mr. Wheeler, and the… — L.A. Meyer
He rested sitting on the un-stepped mast and sail and tried not to think but only to endure. — Ernest Hemingway
On a ship thats made of paper, I would sail the seven seas. (Just to be with you) — Scott Spencer

Who Wrote These Sail Quotes

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