Admiral Quote by Francis Grose

“...for there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself...”

— Joseph Conrad

“there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence and as inscrutable as…

— Joseph Conrad

“A sailor? A common sailor? A common ordinary seaman bests the great Inigo Montoya with the sword? In-con-ceiv-a-ble. He must be the Dread Pirate…

— William Goldman

“When the sea is calm, every ship has a good captain.”

— Swedish Proverb

“I’m a sea captain. I can afford to be a little eccentric.”

— Mira Grant

“Fisher said, “to be a good admiral, a man does not need to be a good sailor. That’s a common mistake. He needs good…

— Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon

“death stretches out like a clothesline, and then suddenly blows: blows a dark sound that swells the sheets and beds are sailing into a…

— Pablo Neruda

“Everyone becomes a captain when they are forced to sail their own ship through troubled waters and through storms.”

— Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

“Words are wind, and the wind that blows exiles across the narrow sea seldom blows them back.”

— George R.R. Martin

“I am like a ship, cast out in the ocean to bob aimlessly amidst the waves. No, I correct myself silently. Not a ship.…

— Jillian Eaton

“If life were a sea adventure, I knew: I wouldn't be sailor, pirate, or cabin boy but more likely a barnacle clinging to the…

— Sara Levine

“All sailors are afraid of the sea. They know what it is.”

— Jens Bjørneboe