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“The idea that you can somehow remain aloof from and superior to the struggle [World War II], while living on food which British sailors…

— George Orwell

“and everything generally made shipshape, which seemed a desirable state of affairs, given that we were in fact aboard a ship.”

— Diana Gabaldon

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

“Ah! These commercial interests -- spoiling the finest life under the sun. Why must the sea be used for trade -- and for war…

— Joseph Conrad

“There was widespread chagrin over not being able to buy Panamanian rum from the bumboats that swarmed both ends of the canal, but it…

— Jennifer Egan

“But sailors were much better adversaries than the average aristocrat. They flipped cards with feral tricks, swore when they lost, swore when they won,…

— Marie Rutkoski

“To the Hesitating Purchaser: "If sailor tales to sailor tunes, Storm and adventure, heat and cold, If schooners, islands, and maroons And Buccaneers and…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“(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

“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

“Black seamen - or "Black Jacks" as African sailors were known - enjoyed a refreshing world of liberty and equality. Even if they were…

— Tony Williams

“The great difference between voyages rests not in ships, but in the people you meet on them.”

— Amelia Barr

“Stories of cannibalism among castaways were so common that British sailors considered the practice of choosing and sacrificing a victim to be an established…

— Laura Hillenbrand