Errors Quote by John Ralston Saul

Methinks I am like a man, who having struck on many shoals, and having narrowly escap'd shipwreck in passing a small frith, has yet…

— David Hume

It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths…

— John Locke

Round the world and home again, that's the sailor's way!

— William Allingham

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors

— Ritu Ghatourey

“I don’t know what position you’re talking about, sir. The Gnomon Society has never questioned the rotundity of the earth. Mr. Jimmerson is himself…

— Charles Portis

No, most of our political elite has not realized that the world is flat.

— Thomas Friedman

“Maybe the Europeans once thought the earth was flat, but the Eskimos always knew it was round. One only needed to look at the…

— Jean Craighead George

Gentlemen, four-fifths of the earth's surface is covered by seas; that is unquestionably too much; the world's surface, the map of oceans and dry…

— Karel Capek

It is true, we are such poor navigators that our thoughts, for the most part, stand off and on upon a harborless coast, are…

— Henry David Thoreau

“the beaches. In literally hundreds of instances, a vessel’s ignorance of her longitude led swiftly to her destruction. Launched on a mix of bravery…

— Dava Sobel

Now, I am not saying that the world is flat, but it could be.

— Andrew Flintoff

“Clever dicks will notice that the figure changes as the boat gets deeper or lighter because the area of the waterplane changes. You can…

— Bill Cooper