Sailing Quotes

331 quotes by 258 authors

The man who would be fully employed should procure a ship or a woman, for no two things produce more trouble. — Plautus
I can't control the wind but I can adjust the sail. — Ricky Skaggs
It is a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel. — Robert Bork
Hoist up sail while gale doth last, Tide and wind stay no man's pleasure. — Robert Southwell
If, sir, men were all virtuous, I should with great alacrity teach them all to fly. But what would be the security of the good… — Samuel Johnson
She watched the gap between ship and shore grow to a huge gulf. Perhaps this was a little like dying, the departed no longer visible… — Susan Wiggs
Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor. — Thomas B. Macaulay
Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore. — Thomas Campion
No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or… — Van Wyck Brooks
People say that life is a cesspool of darkness and dispair. Well we of Van Halen are sailing through it in a yacht! — David Lee Roth
Living without an aim, is like sailing without a compass. — John Ruskin
I don't know who named them swells. There's nothing swell about them. They should have named them awfuls. — Unknown Author
I know enough about Satan to realize that he will have all his weapons ready for determined opposition.Â He would be a missionary simpleton who… — James O. Fraser
There is but a plank between a sailor and eternity. — Thomas Gibbons
Much can they praise the trees so straight and high, The sailing pine,the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm, the poplar never dry, The… — Edmund Spenser
Were this world an endless pain, and by sailing eastward we could forever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any… — Herman Melville
Say, it's only a paper moon, Sailing over a cardboard sea, But it wouldn't be make believe, If you believed in me. — Billy Rose
True freedom has more to do with following the North Star than going whichever way the wind blows.Â Sometimes it seems like freedom is blowing… — Mary Pipher
Marketing today is much more like sailing than driving. Your boat is the brand. If you point your boat in the right direction, follow the… — Steve Rubel
Drifting, On a sea of forgotten teardrops, On a lifeboat, Sailing for Your love — Jimi Hendrix

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