Sailor Quotes

Calm seas never made a good sailor

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

We could say the government spend like drunken sailors, but that would be unfair to drunken sailors, because the sailors are spending their own money.

There is but a plank between a sailor and eternity.

For a sailor to sail around the world, the thought is just, sometimes, too much. Thus, one simply goes from port to port in the same direction.

How odd it is that sewing is thought to be 'women's work' when surgeons, sailors, and cowboys sew too. Yet how many female thoracic surgeons are there? And if precision motor activities are thought to be performed better by women, why wouldn't they make better surgeons too?

It is not true that Congress spends money like a drunken sailor. Drunken sailors spend their own money. Congress spends our money.

Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.

She been looking like a queen in a sailor's dream.

Beautiful. All this suffering at the moment of destruction.

My earrings are worth just enough to buy me a coffin if I die in a strange place. That was the reason why sailors used to wear them.

Wouldn't a sailor laugh at you if you told him that the whole crossing depends on the first turn of the helm?

I'm what you call a Depression sailor.

The man who has a girl in every port is not a sailor but a wholesaler.

To say Congress is spending like drunken sailors is an insult to drunken sailors.

Navigation is easy. If it wasn't, they wouldn't be able to teach it to Sailors.

A sailor may choose the wind to ride out of seaport, but the wind has a mind of it's own.

Smooth seas don't produce skillful sailors.

I never played a rich man, I never played a prince. And to play a sailor or longshoreman you had to make your dance more eclectic and varied, but still keep it indigenous to your nationality, upbringing, and background.

Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze.

A great mind is a good sailor, as a great heart is.

All men will be sailors then Until the sea shall free them

Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.

Tell that to the marines - the sailors won't believe it.

The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.