Sailing Quotes

331 quotes by 272 authors

Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird. — Neil Armstrong
I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep… — Arthur Ashe
Sailing a boat calls for quick action, a blending of feeling with the wind and water as well as with the very heart and soul… — George Matthew Adams
Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common… — Joseph Addison
Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there… — John Calvin
Aside from what it teaches you, there is simply the indescribable degree of peace that can be achieved on a sailing vessel at sea. I… — Billy Campbell
The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph… — Noam Chomsky
There is little man has made that approaches anything in nature, but a sailing ship does. There is not much man has made that calls… — Alan Villiers
Until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore, you will not know the terror of being forever lost at sea. — Charlie Cook
The cabin of a small yacht is truly a wonderful thing; not only will it shelter you from a tempest, but from the other troubles… — Lewis Francis Herreshoff
I wanted freedom, open air and adventure. I found it on the sea. — Alain Gerbault
Sailing is just the bottom line, like adding up the score in bridge. My real interest is in the tremendous game of life. — Dennis Conner
Only fools and passengers drink at sea. — Alan Villiers
I am a citizen of the most beautiful nation on earth, a nation whose laws are harsh yet simple, a nation that never cheats, which… — Bernard Moitessier
BOAT = Break Out Another Thousand — Alex Blackwell
It looks like frozen snot. — Lewis Francis Herreshoff
Waves are not measured in feet or inches, they are measured in increments of fear. — Buzzy Trent
The thing I realized this last few days is that the earth is a big place. — Paul Cayard
Come, cuddle your head on my shoulder, dear, your head like the golden rod, and we will go sailing away from here to the beautiful… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire that urged adventurers… — Jean Batten

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