Quote by Yuval Noah Harari

Here are also the two vessels, but the San Carlos without sailors, all having died of the scurvy, except two.

— Junipero Serra

“At the height of their power in the fifteenth century, the Hanseatics were believed to have had at their command 40,000 vessels and 300,000 men.”

— Mark Kurlansky

“Their ships were steeds, and they rode the waves like jennets.”

— Felipe Fernández-Armesto

“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

I swear like a sailor, assuming the sailor in question died in 1800 and was really square.

— Alexandra Petri

“My fiction-writing career owes it start to the bad navigation of an 18th century pirate. For it was”

— Paul Kemprecos

“That was Flint's treasure that we had come so far to seek, and that had cost already the lives of seventeen men from the…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“These poor, plain men, dwellers upon the lonely sands of Hatteras, took their lives in their hands, and, at the most imminent risk crossed…

— Annual Report of the U.S. Life- Saving Service 1885

“He found himself in the strange predicament all sailors share: essentially he belonged neither to the land nor to the sea. Possibly a man…

— Yukio Mishima

“It took us four expeditions to Ellesmere Island over six years to find our needle. So much for serendipity.”

— Neil Shubin

“The man who ten years earlier and one year later was considered a bandit and outlaw is sent a two-day sail from France, to…

— Leo Tolstoy

“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