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Sailing Quotes by P.J. O'Rourke
- A dugout is much superior to a conventional manufactured canoe because you can get soaking wet without bothering to capsize it.
- This is the most elaborate and luxurious method of convincing others that you can cook. Take everybody out on your yacht until they're green in…
- I don't think I'll ever be a real boat reporter. My Rolex isn't big enough.
- If the wind is blowing like stink and everything is working right, a twelve-meter sailboat can go eleven and a half or twelve miles an…
- The America's Cup is like driving your Lamborgini to the Gran Prix track to watch the charter buses race.
- There are a lot of mysterious things about boats, such as why anyone would get on one voluntarily.
- In Western Australia they don't even know how to make that vital piece of sailboating equipment, the gin and tonic.
More Sailing Quotes
- 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… — Arthur Ashe
- Sailing a boat calls for quick action, a blending of feeling with the wind and water as well as with the very… — 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… — Joseph Addison
- Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst… — John Calvin
- Aside from what it teaches you, there is simply the indescribable degree of peace that can be achieved on a sailing vessel… — Billy Campbell
- The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing… — Noam Chomsky
- There is little man has made that approaches anything in nature, but a sailing ship does. There is not much man has… — Alan Villiers
- Until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore, you will not know the terror of being forever lost at… — Charlie Cook
- The cabin of a small yacht is truly a wonderful thing; not only will it shelter you from a tempest, but from… — 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… — Dennis Conner