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“When I was shipwrecked recently, for instance, I had the fortune to wash aboard a barge where I enjoyed a late supper of roast…

— Lemony Snicket

“I’m tired of sailing my little boat Far inside of the harbor bar; I want to be out where the big ships float —…

— Verne Harnish

“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

“ADMIRAL OF THE NARROW SEAS. One who from drunkenness   vomits into the lap of the person sitting opposite to   him. SEA PHRASE.”

— Francis Grose

“Great storms only challenge great sailors.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“I felt infuriatingly left out -- a tugboat in drydock while she, glittery voyager of secure destination, steamed down the harbor with whistles whistling…

— Truman Capote

“Adept sailors emerge after sailing tough storms.”

— Donald Ngonyo

“as the wind howled on, and the sea leaped, and the ship groaned and dived, and yet steadfastedly shot her red hell further and…

— Herman Melville

O captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done. The ship has weather'd every wrack The prize we sought is won The port is…

— Walt Whitman

“They put me and more 300 companions of misfortune and captivity in the strait and infected basement of a ship. Thirty days of cruel…

— Maria Firmina dos Reis

“everyone called “little potato.” She had such a sweet smile. Every night there would be a brawl between sailors and Marines. It was great…

— Daryl J. Eigen

“West was the only officer on the quarterdeck, and it so happened that the party of hands making dolphins and paunch-mats on the forecastle…

— Patrick O'Brian