Bird Quote by Lawrence Hargrave

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable.

— Anonymous

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

If you don't know what port you are sailing to, no wind is favourable.

— Seneca the Younger

The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

— Edward Gibbon

Walking aft a few feet we stand at the steering gear of the ship. There is no cozy; wheel-house on the bridge for the…

— Paul J. H. Schoemaker

And the winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

— Edward Gibbon

The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind.

— William Falconer

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

— Jim Rohn

For whom all winds are quiet as the sun,/ All waters as the shore.

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

We returned home, after these experiments, with the conviction that sailing flight was not the exclusive prerogative of birds.

— Otto Lilienthal

Maybe you're getting into the rhythm of sailing life," says James. He looks out at the waves that are rolling in to lap against…

— Anonymous

“Heavy ships are so graceful in the water' Anna said at last, looking away. 'Compared to lighter crafts, I mean. If a boat is…

— Eleanor Catton