Sailor Quotes - Page 2

I always played a soldier, sailor, or policemen.

The sailor cannot see the north / but knows the needle can.

Every Naval vessel has a contingent of Marines aboard. After all, the Sailors have to have someone to dance with.

Going up the mast is one of the most dangerous things you can do as a solo sailor.

They have been grand-jurymen since before Noah was a sailor

A good sailor knows everything is always changing.

You've got to think of the fine times you had with your mate, not the moment of his perishin'. Every tear you shed now only wets his windin' sheet and disturbs his rest

I have the mouth of a sailor.

In the Arctic I met some Russian sailors on a submarine and they chorused, "Gordon's alive!"

There was once an old sailor my grandfather knew, Who had so many things which he wanted to do That, whenever he thought it was time to begin, He couldn't because of the state he was in.

An angry skipper makes an unhappy crew.

Whoever you are, you've got to start from where you are. If you're a sailor, and only know sailor's language, well, write in it, for God's sake.

The wind is never for the sailor who knows not to what port he is bound.

The impossibility of keeping Englishmen sober ashore was a constant source of complaint, It was the great weakness of 16th century English infantrymen, whose performance when sober was admired even by the Spaniards. Already it was true, as it was to be for centuries, that many saw and despised the drunken sailor ashore, but few knew and admired him at his work afloat.

As I've grown - dare I say it - older, I had hopes of indulging my dreams of being a sailor.

Not only have our citizens endured domestic disaster, but they've lived through one international humiliation after another, one after another. We all remember the images of our sailors being forced to their knees by their Iranian captors at gunpoint.

Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast, Ready with every nod to tumble down Into the fatal bowels of the deep.

The difference between congressmen and drunken sailors is that drunken sailors are spending their own money.

Denmark is a country built on a commercial fleet. That's basically what we have been doing. We're just a small country of islands, and every family has a sailor.

It is part of a sailor's life to die well.

It's not fair to say that Congress spends money like a drunk sailor. At least the sailor is spending his own money!

To complain about critics in a business is like a sailor complaining about the waves. Go back to the beach if you don't like it.

Miss Marks, you see, makes her living by...entertaining young, and not so young, sailors...or any other members of the armed forced, or civilians, who enjoy...being entertained by ladies who...entertain.

Although I do have a sailor's mouth, it's not attractive for me to hear men cursing. That kinda talk is not charming.

It is unacceptable to risk the lives of American soldiers and sailors merely to accommodate the sexual lifestyles of certain individuals.