Sailor Quotes

233 quotes by 184 authors

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea. — Honore de Balzac
The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor. — Samuel Butler
I got a part as a chorus girl in a show called Every Sailor and I had fun doing it. Mother didn't really approve of… — James Cagney
A sailor's joys are as simple as a child's. — Bernard Moitessier
Sailors, with their built in sense of order, service and discipline, should really be running the world. — Nicholas Monsarrat
A Marine should be sworn to the patient endurance of hardships, like the ancient knights; and it is not the least of these necessary hardships… — Bernard Law Montgomery
Every Sailor has the potential to lead," said Mullen, "I don't care if it's a seaman recruit or someone higher ranking than myself. Where there's… — Michael Mullen
The allurement that women hold out to men is precisely the allurement that Cape Hatteras holds out to sailors; they are enormously dangerous and hence… — H. L. Mencken
Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force! You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable. — H.G. Wells
How happy is the sailor's life, from coast to coast to roam; in every port he finds a wife, in every land a home. — Isaac Bickerstaffe
The wind is never for the sailor who knows not to what port he is bound. — Og Mandino
The master of a single trade can support a family. The master of seven trades cannot support himself. The wind is never for the sailor… — Og Mandino
The first steps in Agriculture, Astronomy, Zoology, (those first steps which the farmer, the hunter, and the sailor take,) teach that nature's dice are always… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Exact science and its practical movements are no checks on the greatest poet, but always his encouragement and support ... The sailor and traveller, the… — Walt Whitman
Tattoo. What a loaded word it is, rife with associations to goons, goofs, bikers, tribal warriors, carnival artists, drunken sailors and floozies. — Jon Anderson
My body is a journal in a way. It's like what sailors used to do, where every tattoo meant something, a specific time in your… — Johnny Depp
A politician complaining about the media is like a sailor complaining about the sea. — Enoch Powell
NATO remains a military alliance, and we are against having a military alliance making itself at home right in our own backyard; in our historic… — Vladimir Putin
As an enlisted sailor, I don't feel that the Navy is advancing me in rank fast enough, so I'm going to change my last name… — Brad Wilkerson

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