History Quote by Philippa Gregory

“Fill everything, but own nothing. We are vessels, not containers”

— Anonymous

“How many people, on that voyage, load up the boat till it is ever in danger of swamping with a store of foolish things…

— Jerome K. Jerome

“There is a certain grandeur and nobility in administering to another’s need out of one’s fullness and plenty.”

— Howard Thurman

“Modern traveling is not traveling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.”

— John Ruskin

“when you get something from a ship its called CARgo. if you get something from a car its called SHIPment”

— Elisabeth Austin

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

— Amelia Barr

“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

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

— Diana Gabaldon

Inanimate objects are sometimes parties to litigation. A ship has a legal personality, a fiction found useful for maritime purposes. The corporation sole -…

— William O. Douglas

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

“The people with whom you share a history: these are the people who can leave you shipwrecked and drowning.”

— Salman Rushdie