Sailor Quotes

233 quotes by 174 authors

He was sailing over a boundless expanse of sea, with a blood-red sky above, and the angry waters, lashed into fury beneath, boiling and eddying… — Charles Dickens
An angry skipper makes an unhappy crew. — Rudyard Kipling
It thrilled through him when he first felt the keel answer to his hand on the spokes and slide over the long hollows as the… — Rudyard Kipling
It was the forty-fathom slumber that clears the soul and eye and heart, and sends you to breakfast ravening. — Rudyard Kipling
At last the anchor was up, the sails were set, and off we glided. It was a sharp, cold Christmas; and as the short northern… — Herman Melville
He believed in it, as certain good women believe in the leviathan-by faith, not by reason. — Jules Verne
In due course we arrive, if wit can be said that we ever fully arrive. The truth is there are destinations beyond destinations and do… — Richard Bode
It is a pleasant surprise to him (the pure mathematician) and an added problem if he finds that the arts can use his calculations, or… — George Santayana
This is the day of wonders. The land is covered with trees like a head with hair and behind the ship the sun rises tipping… — Alice Munro
For over two weeks, the defenders of Wake Island held off a vastly superior force of Japanese ships and troops, inspiring the whole nation with… — Tom Clancy
Music's the best thing we do as humans, isn't it? Music, I mean you flail your limbs, make you move in a way you don't… — Russell Howard
It is unacceptable to risk the lives of American soldiers and sailors merely to accommodate the sexual lifestyles of certain individuals. — Larry Craig
It is part of a sailor's life to die well. — Stephen Decatur
... the basic principles of the military services are unchangeable. Courage and candor, obedience and comradeship, love of fatherland and loyalty to the State: these… — Erich Raeder
The wind of God's grace is incessantly blowing. Lazy sailors on the sea of life do not take advantage of it. But the active and… — Mahatma Gandhi
There's a sureness to good writing even when what's being written about doesn't make all that much sense. It's the sureness of the so-called seat… — Anne Bernays
The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long head — Herman Melville
The ocean, whose tides respond, like women's menses, to the pull of the moon, the ocean which corresponds to the amniotic fluid in which human… — Adrienne Rich
The happiest hour a sailor sees Is when he's down At an inland town, With his Nancy on his knees, yo ho! And his arm… — W. S. Gilbert
Repetita iuvant. Italy, a land of great saints, poets, sailors, artists, statesmen, businessmen, lawyers, intellectuals, professors, journalists, whores, gangsters, religious parasites and dickheads. — William C. Brown

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