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  • Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

    Light   Sea   History  
  • There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.

    Life   Ocean   Army  
    Joseph Conrad (1905). “Lord Jim”, p.7, McClure, Phillips & Company
  • He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.

  • I must go down to the sea again For the call of the running tide It's a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied.

    Running   Sea   Sailing  
    "Sea Fever" l. 5 (1902)
  • To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.

    Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7”, p.248, Best Books on
  • The desire to build a house is the tired wish of a man content thenceforward with a single anchorage. The desire to build a boat is the desire of youth, unwilling yet to accept the idea of a final resting place.

    Tired   Men   Ideas  
    Arthur Ransome, Brian Hammett (2002). “Racundra's third cruise”, Wiley
  • I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

    "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
  • A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

    1987 Address at Trinity College, Washington. Reported in Time, 22 Jun.
  • I must down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life, To the gull's way and the whale's way where the wind's like a whetted knife And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow rover, And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over.

    Life   Dream   Sweet  
    'Sea Fever' (1902)
  • There are only two colors to paint a boat, black or white, and only a fool would paint a boat black.

    Color   Two   White  
  • If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

  • Some years ago - never mind how long precisely - having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.

    Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.1, Velvet Element Books
  • If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable.

    'Epistulae ad Lucilium' letter 71, sect. 3
  • Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off - then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.

    Herman Melville (2002). “Moby-Dick: A Picture Voyage : an Abridged and Illustrated Edition of the Original Classic”, p.13, Spinner Publications
  • He who lets the sea lull him into a sense of security is in very grave danger.

    Sea   Sailing   Nautical  
  • Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.

  • O Captain! My Captain! our fearful trip is done.

    "O Captain! My Captain!" l. 1 (1871)
  • There is a time in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.

    'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 215
  • We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

    Hope   Wind   Sea  
  • The only way to get a good crew is to marry one.

    Sea   Sailing   Nautical  
  • I hate storms, but calms undermine my spirits.

    Bernard Moitessier (1995). “The Long Way”, p.62, Sheridan House, Inc.
  • O Captain my Captain! our fearful trip is done, / The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won

    "O Captain! My Captain!" l. 1 (1871)
  • The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

  • I can't wait for the oil wells to run dry, for the last gob of black, sticky muck to come oozing out of some remote well. Then the glory of sail will return.

    Running   Oil   Waiting  
    Tristan Jones (1998). “Ice!”, p.35, Sheridan House, Inc.
  • 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.

    Sea   Sailing   Needs  
    Bernard Moitessier (1995). “The Long Way”, p.3, Rowman & Littlefield
  • To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

  • All I ask is a tall ship and a star to sail her by.

    Stars   Sea   Sailing  
    John Masefield, “Sea Fever”
  • A small craft in an ocean is, or should be, a benevolent dictatorship.

  • The days pass happily with me wherever my ship sails.

  • There is nothing -- absolutely nothing -- half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. In or out of 'em, it doesn't matter. Nothing seems really to matter, that's the charm of it. Whether you get away, or whether you don't; whether you arrive at your destination or whether you reach somewhere else, or whether you never get anywhere at all, you're always busy, and you never do anything in particular; and when you've done it there's always something else to do, and you can do it if you like, but you'd much better not.

    Kenneth Grahame (1988). “My Dearest Mouse: 'The Wind in the Willows' Letters”, Viking Press
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