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Sailing Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- 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…
- No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a…
More Sailing Quotes
- There is little man has made that approaches anything in nature, but a sailing ship does. There is not much man has… — Alan Villiers
- 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
- 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
- The magnetic needle always points to the north, and hence it is that sailing vessel does not lose her direction. So long… — Ramakrishna
- Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird. — Neil Armstrong
- Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst… — John Calvin
- Until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore, you will not know the terror of being forever lost at… — Charlie Cook