Every Quote by William Petty Download Open image “Every seaman is not only a navigator, but a merchant and also a soldier.” — William Petty ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Every Merchant Only Seaman Soldier
For every Seaman of Industry and Ingenuity, is not only a Navigator, but a Merchant, and also a Soldier. — William Petty Copy Share Image
“He was a seaman, but he was a wanderer, too, while most seamen lead, if one may so express it, a sedentary life. Their minds are of the stay-at-home order, and their home is always with them - the ship; and so is their country - the sea. One ship is very much like another, and the sea is always… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share
“(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 Copy Share Image
...for there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence... — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I do not know whether I have been a good seaman, but I know I have been a very faithful one. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
One ship is very much like another and the sea is always the same. In the immutability of their surroundings the foreign shores, the foreign faces, the changing immensity of life, glide past, veiled not by a sense of mystery but by a slightly disdainful ignorance; for there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself,… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share
“...for there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself...” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence and as inscrutable as… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Recollect that you must be a seaman to be an officer and also that you cannot be a good officer without being a gentleman. — Horatio Nelson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It's extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can't get a job on a ship unless you have seaman's paper's, and you can't… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Causes of Civil War are also, that the Wealth of the Nation is in too few mens hands, and that no certain means are… — William Petty Copy Share Image
It were good to know how much hay an acre of every sort will bear; how many cattle the same weight of each sort… — William Petty Copy Share Image
Here we are to remember that in consequence of our opinion that labor is the Father and active principle of wealth, as lands are… — William Petty Copy Share Image
Raising of money may indeed change the species, but with so much loss as the foreign pieces were raised unto, above their intrinsick value. — William Petty Copy Share Image
A thousand acres that can feed a thousand souls is better than ten thousand acres of no more effect. — William Petty Copy Share Image
Wherefore the race being not to the swift, etc. but time and chance happening to all men, I leave the Judgement of the whole… — William Petty Copy Share Image
The method I take to do this is not yet very usual; for instead of using only comparative and superlative Words, and intellectual Arguments,… — William Petty Copy Share Image
I hope no man takes what I said about the living and dieing of men for mathematical demonstration. — William Petty Copy Share Image
No man pays double or twice for the same thing, forasmuch as nothing can be spent but once. — William Petty Copy Share Image
An house is of a double nature, viz., one, wherein it is a way and means of expence, the other as it is an… — William Petty Copy Share Image
“Milk was used in various forms during the summer months; in winter beer or water was used. Bread, cakes, potatoes, and sea food were… — William Petty Copy Share Image
For not only every democracy, but certainly every republic, bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We were so poor as kids. I didn't even see a bathtub, running water, hot water, commode - we didn't have any of that.… — Phil Robertson Copy Share Image
If you look at the charts every year, there may be five or ten memorable songs from each year. — Randy Jackson Copy Share Image
Like many other scientists who hold the Catholic faith, I see the Creator's plan and purpose fulfilled in our universe. I see a planet… — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
Every time the U.S. government makes a low-cost loan to someone, it's investing in them. — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
Food as a hobby used to be an elite pastime, and it has become something that is totally ordinary for people of every background.… — Dana Goodyear Copy Share Image
We are surrounded every day by people who do thankless but important work. — Brian Kilmeade Copy Share Image
