Sailing Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

People say that life is a cesspool of darkness and dispair. Well we of Van Halen are sailing through it in a yacht!

The only way to get a good crew is to marry one.

There is little man has made that approaches anything in nature, but a sailing ship does. There is not much man has made that calls to all the best in him, but a sailing ship does.

A small craft in an ocean is, or should be, a benevolent dictatorship.

The goal is not to sail the boat, but rather to help the boat sail herself.

I'll do business with anyone, but I'll only go sailing with gentlemen.

I'm telling you that India is that way, now set my course.

There is but a plank between a sailor and eternity.

Bad cooking is responsible for more trouble at sea than all other things put together.