Diversion Quote by Herman Melville

“The sailors do not mind the arrangement, for they know that this way there will, at the least, be one person who, at the…

— Neil Gaiman

It has been said that men carry on a kind of coasting trade with religion. In the voyage of life, they profess to be…

— Charles Caleb Colton

In all lands, sailors form a race apart. They profess a congenital contempt for landlubbers. As for the tradesman, he understands nothing of sailors…

— Honore de Balzac

All men will be sailors then Until the sea shall free them

— Leonard Cohen

A Marine should be sworn to the patient endurance of hardships, like the ancient knights; and it is not the least of these necessary…

— Bernard Law Montgomery

“(about sailors) Their minds are of the stay-at-home order, and their home is always with them - the ship; and so is their country…

— Joseph Conrad

There are good sailors. Well, some good sailors. In a way they are ideal as husbands. They drop in every six months for a…

— Kerry Greenwood

The world is in dreadful need of men who will assume the new leadership - who will have the courage of their own visions…

— Hendrik Willem van Loon

“If they will only hold their hands until the season is over, he promises them a royal carnival, when all grudges can he settled…

— Jack London

“There are no whores in Scaithe’s Ebb, or none that consider themselves as such, although there have always been many women who, if pressed,…

— Neil Gaiman

Sailors, with their built in sense of order, service and discipline, should really be running the world.

— Nicholas Monsarrat

“He was a seaman, but he was a wanderer, too, while most seamen lead, if one may so express it, a sedentary life. Their…

— Joseph Conrad