Adversity Quote by Herman Melville

The Navy's a very gentlemanly business. You fire at the horizon to sink a ship and then you pull people out of the water…

— William Golding

“This is an illustrious example which reminds us that good and saintly men sometimes run into the greatest of misfortunes and dangers not through…

— Martin Luther

“having coauthored The Wrong Guys: False Confessions and the Norfolk Four, a book about four U.S. Navy sailors who, under intense police pressure and…

— Beverly Lowry

Behold, now, another providence of God. A ship comes into the harbor.

— William Bradford

“(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

“What the youth needs to be told is that a ship is a-building in his own mental dry dock, a ship with freedom of…

— Aldo Leopold

Here ends the story of a ship, but there will always be other ships, for we are an island race. Through all our centuries,…

— Noel Coward

The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you're not an idiot, but find yourself in the Navy,…

— Herman Wouk

Great waves, and blaze with fire like them.In beauty, but do not condemn,The seamen who embark and fail,But only those who will not sail.

— John Piper

They have their own navy?

— Red Skelton

“The strange thing about ships is despite them being crowded and stinky and at the mercy of Nature, most times they are like wooden…

— Louis Nowra

“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