Mariners Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

... the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.

— Ben Jonson

“Adept sailors emerge after sailing tough storms.”

— Donald Ngonyo

“We did not get on much further, for in another moment we were caught by a terrific squall from the West that snapped the…

— Homer

Another boat, a straight-four, four sweep oarsmen without a coxswain, raced through our flotilla. I looked at them as they jetted past, and I…

— Brad Alan Lewis

“The boat rocked perilously as they heaved and tore at the clinging weeds, razor-sharp and strong as grave-bands.”

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“Only the debris of wreckage, and not much of that, was left behind by the sharks who fed on tragedy: the fishermen, too, mourned…

— William Trevor

“We are like sailors who on the open sea must reconstruct their ship but are never able to start afresh from the bottom.”

— Otto Neurath

“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

“With the words, “We commit the body to the deep,” the end of the plank was lifted, and the hammock, heavily weighted at the…

— John D. Whidden

“When the winds of life blow hard and hit your boat, you've got to adjust your sails to keep afloat.”

— Mouloud Benzadi

“We were still on the whale road, in the wind that keened and thrummed the ropes.”

— Robert Low

During the great storms of our lives we imitate those captains who jettison their weightiest cargo.

— Honore de Balzac