Sail Quotes

The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail.

You do not ask a tame seagull why it needs to disappear from time to time toward the open sea. It goes, that's all.

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

At sea, I learned how little a person needs, not how much.

You can't change the wind but you can set your sails.

When the winds of life don't hit your sails, you grab the oars of life and you start pushing.

Some things cannot be spoken or discovered until we have been stuck, incapacitated, or blown off course for awhile. Plain sailing is pleasant, but you are not going to explore many unknown realms that way.

The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find."

Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.

God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.

There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.

It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.

Dance is very, very old. With Louis XIV at Versailles is where ballet started.

There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.

Calm seas never made a good sailor

A sailing ship is no democracy; you don't caucus a crew as to where you'll go anymore than you inquire when they'd like to shorten sail.

To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for.

Courtly manners are contagious; they are caught at Versailles.

We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean.

The best that science can devise and that naval organization can provide must be regarded only as an aid, and never as a substitute for good seamanship.

The ocean has always been a salve to my soul.

He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.

It's out there at sea that you are really yourself.

Waves are not measured in feet or inches, they are measured in increments of fear.