Seamen Quotes

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  • Recollect that you must be a seaman to be an officer and also that you cannot be a good officer without being a gentleman.

    Horatio Nelson (1846). “The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson”, p.214
  • The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment. It is commonly observed, that among soldiers and seamen, though there is much kindness, there is little grief; they see their friend fall without any of that lamentation which is indulged in security and idleness, because they have no leisure to spare from the care of themselves; and whoever shall keep his thoughts equally busy will find himself equally unaffected with irretrievable losses.

    Kindness   Grief   Fall  
    Samuel Johnson (1810). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.306
  • I've seen your stormy seas and stormy women, And pity lovers rather more than seamen.

    Sad   Sea   Lovers  
    LORD BYRON (1875). “DON JUAN”, p.155
  • The humblest craft that floats makes its appeal to a seaman by the faithfulness of her life.

    Joseph Conrad (2015). “The Napoleonic Novels: The Rover & Suspense: From the Renowned Author of The Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent and Under Western Eyes (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)”, p.604, e-artnow
  • Like a red morn that ever yet betokened, Wreck to the seaman, tempest to the field, Sorrow to the shepherds, woe unto the birds, Gusts and foul flaws to herdmen and to herds.

    Woe Unto   Bird   Sorrow  
    William Shakespeare (1843). “The Poems of William Shakspere: With Facts Connected with His Life”, p.42
  • The colors that float from the masthead should be the credentials of our seamen. There is no safety to us, and the gentlemen have shown it, but in the rule that all who sail under the flag (not being enemies) are protected by the flag.

    "Memorable American Speeches, Volume II: Democracy and Nationality". Book collected and edited by John Vance Cheney, 1907-1910.
  • Great waves, and blaze with fire like them.In beauty, but do not condemn,The seamen who embark and fail,But only those who will not sail.

    Fire   Failing   Wave  
  • A great philosopher in the wrong is like a beacon on the reefs which says to seamen: steer clear of me.

    Jacques Maritain (2015). “On the Use of Philosophy: Three Essays”, p.5, Princeton University Press
  • The legislature have anxiously provided for those most useful and deserving body of men, the seamen and marines of this country.

    Country   Marine   Men  
  • I sometimes think it ironic for an ex-seaman, longshoreman, truck driver, policeman, bus driver, etc... to find success writing children's novels.

  • Demon?” Gwen gasped out. Her back jerked ramrod-straight, and her face leeched of color. “Did you just say demon?” Oh, uh…did I say that?” Strider once again glanced around the plane helplessly. “No, no. I think I said seaman.

    Thinking   Color   Faces  
    Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Whisper”, p.52, HQN Books
  • But where, after all, would be the poetry of the sea were there no wild waves?

    Joshua Slocum, Applewood Books (CRT) (2006). “Sailing Alone Around the World”, p.193, Applewood Books
  • I sat on cushioned otter-skin: My word was law from Ith to Emain, And shook at Invar Amargin The hearts of the world-troubling seamen, And drove tumult and war away.

    War   Heart   Law  
    William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.14, Simon and Schuster
  • It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things in general. The farmer philosophizes in terms of crops, soils, markets, and implements, the mechanic generalizes his experiences of wood and iron, the seaman reaches similar conclusions by his own special road; and if the scholar keeps pace with these it must be by an equally virile productivity.

    Men   Iron   Views  
    Charles Horton Cooley (1909). “Two Major Works: Social Organization. Human Nature and the Social Order”, Glencoe, Ill., Free P
  • I do not know whether I have been a good seaman, but I know I have been a very faithful one.

    Faithful   Seamen   Knows  
    Joseph Conrad (2015). “The Complete Novels of Joseph Conrad - All 20 Works in One Premium Edition: Including Unforgettable Titles like Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, Under Western Eyes and Many More (With Author’s Letters, Memoirs and Critical Essays)”, p.4350, e-artnow
  • For there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence.

    Joseph Conrad (2008). “Heart of Darkness and Other Tales”, OUP Oxford
  • I was a tried seaman when, for the first time, I set foot upon the soil of my country, and took up my residence where my people had lived for over two hundred years.

    Country   Time   Years  
    John Sergeant Wise, Paul Dennis Sporer (2005). “End of an Era: The Last Days of Traditional Southern Culture as Seen Through the Eyes of a Young Confederate Soldier”, p.6, Anza Publishing
  • Columbus's doom-burdened caravels Slant to the shore, and all their seamen land.

    Land   Sailing   Columbus  
  • Still we did not expect to be without rubs and difficulties; and we have had them. First the detention of Western posts: then the coalition of Pilnitz, outlawing our commerce with France, and the British enforcement of the outlawry. In your day French depredations; in mine English, and the Berlin and Milan decrees: now the English orders of council, and the piracies they authorize. When these shall be over, it will the impressment of our seamen, or something else; and so we have gone on, and so we shall go on, puzzled and prospering beyond example in the history of man.

    Men   Order   Example  
    Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.37, Cambridge University Press
  • That Seaman is a handsome young man but he spends too much time looking in his mirror rather than at the ball. You can't keep goal with hair like that.

    Men   Mirrors   Hair  
  • Not only the priceless heritage of our fathers, of our seamen, of our Empire builders is being thrown away in a war that serves no British interests - but our alliance leader Stalin dreams of nothing but the destruction of that heritage of our fathers?

    Dream   Father   War  
    John Amery (2007). “John Amery Speaks, &: England and Europe”
  • There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen.

    Army   Gentleman   Navy  
    "History of England". Book by Thomas B. Macaulay, Volume I, Chapter III, Part XXXII, 1848.
  • Seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert him from laying violent hands upon the ship.

    Jonathan Swift, William Wotton (1811). “A tale of a tub,: written for the universal improvement of mankind. To which is added, An account of a battle between the ancient and modern books in St. James's Library”, p.43
  • God bless the soldiers and seamen, with all their brave commanders.

    Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.1402, Jazzybee Verlag
  • I sum up the prospects for 1967 in three short sentences. We are back on course. The ship is picking up speed. The economy is moving. Every seaman knows the command at such a moment: 'steady as she goes'.

    James Callaghan (1987). “Time and chance”, HarperCollins
  • When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.

    Men   Looks   Philosopher  
  • To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go.

    Joshua Slocum (1985). “The Voyages of Joshua Slocum”, p.381, Sheridan House, Inc.
  • There's no way the future's over for Martin Keown, Tony Adams or David Seaman.

    Way   England   Seamen  
  • Put together a seaman, soldier and airman and what do you get? The sum of all fears.

  • Seamen three! what men be ye? Gotham's three Wise Men we be. Whither in your bowl so free? To rake the moon from out the sea. The bowl goes trim. The moon doth shine, And our ballast is old wine.

    Wise   Wine   Moon  
    Thomas Love Peacock (1850). “Headlong hall and Nightmare abbey”, p.152
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