Sail Quotes

512 Sail quotes by 385 unique authors

For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail? — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars. — Richard Halliburton
Think of life as a voyage. The truest liver of the truest life is like a voyager who, as he sails, is not indifferent to… — Phillips Brooks
The great pilot can sail even when his canvass is rent. — Seneca the Younger
When life takes the wind out of your sails, it is to test you at the oars. — Robert Breault
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
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
Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time. — Joseph Conrad
The goal is not to sail the boat, but rather to help the boat sail herself. — John Rousmaniere
I write, I teach, I direct. I sail around the world for Holland America two months out of every year doing a seminar where we… — Unknown Author
George W. Bush was a silver spoon dolt with no record to speak of other than bankruptcy and selling tropical plants, and we let him… — Adam McKay
My family had a membership to the Riverside Yacht Club where my brother, Sandy, learned to sail, and I competed in local swim races. My… — Dorothy Hamill
Since I was 10 years old, I knew I wanted to sail around the world. — Laura Dekker
Instead of sailing off into the sunset, he hopes to sail into the next century. — Dave Anderson
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the… — Marjorie Holmes
He enters the port with a full sail. — Virgil
Thus, I steer my bark, and sail On even keel, with gentle gale. — Matthew Green
The white sail of his soul has rounded the promontory - death. — William Alexander
Horses and mules, and even sail cars, made more rapid progress than did the earliest locomotive. — John Moody

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