Light boats sail swift, though greater hulks draw deep. — William Shakespeare
When you sail on a boat you take with you the minimum of resources. You don't waste anything. You don't leave the light on; you don't leave a computer screen on... on land we take what we want — Ellen MacArthur
There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. — Kenneth Grahame
Boats in the harbor are safe but that is not what they are meant for. — Zig Ziglar
Understand the boat and the boat will understand you. — Scottish Proverbs
A boat is safe in the harbor. But this is not the purpose of a boat. — Paulo Coelho
The boat is safer anchored at the port; but that’s not the aim of boats. — Paulo Coelho
Shells sink, dreams float. Life's good on our boat. — Jimmy Buffett
There is no better boat than a horoscope to help a man cross over the sea of life. — Varahamihira
Sail the main course in a simple sturdy craft. Keep her well stocked with short stories and long laughs. Go fast enough to get there but slow enough to see. Moderation seems to be the key. — Jimmy Buffett
Sail while the breeze blows, wind and tide wait for no man. — Danish Proverbs
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. — Alan Villiers
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The boat follows the helm, the woman follows her husband. — Vietnamese Proverbs
Short Boats Quotes
When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
How strange! You seek guidance, yet you do not tread its path, surely a boat does not sail on land. — Al-Shafi‘i
We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
At sea, I learned how little a person needs, not how much. — Robin Lee Graham
The best way to observe a fish is to become a fish. — Jacques Yves Cousteau
Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat. — Saunders
We must row in whatever boat we find ourselves in. — Christie Watson
For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It's always our self we find in the sea. — E. E. cummings
Peace doesn't come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat. — John Ortberg
Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit. — Brooks Atkinson
Boats Image Quotes
My penalty for rocking the boat was being traded. — Ted Lindsay
Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.
Boats And 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. — Bernard Moitessier
later down the road of life, i made the discovery that salt water was also good for the mental abrasions one inevitably acquires on land. — Jimmy Buffett
I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full. — Arthur Ashe
The man who rows the boat seldom has time to rock it.
Any damn fool can navigate the world sober. It takes a really good sailor to do it drunk. — Francis Chichester
To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest. — Sterling Hayden
My real log is written in the sea and sky; the sails talking with the rain and the stars amid the sounds of the sea, the silences full of secret things between my boat and me, like the times I spent as a child listening to the forest talk. — Bernard Moitessier
The ocean has always been a salve to my soul. — Jimmy Buffett
The breeze of grace is always blowing on you. You have to open the sails and your boat will move forward. — Ramakrishna
Out of sight of land the sailor feels safe. It is the beach that worries him. — Charles Davis
It's out there at sea that you are really yourself. — Vito Dumas
I wanted freedom, open air and adventure. I found it on the sea. — Alain Gerbault
We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came. — John F. Kennedy
Hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic. — Van Morrison
Until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore, you will not know the terror of being forever lost at sea. — Charlie Cook
I went to sea from the most tender age and have continued in a sea life to this day. Whoever gives himself up to this art wants to know the secrets of Nature here below. It is more than forty years that I have been thus engaged. Wherever any one has sailed, there I have sailed. — Christopher Columbus
Darius was clearly of the opinion
That the air is also man's dominion,
And that, with paddle or fins or pinion,
We soon or late
Shall navigate
The azure, as now we sail the sea. — John Townsend Trowbridge
My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea, and the heart of the great ocean sends a thrilling pulse through me. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There is nothing like lying flat on your back on the deck, alone except for the helmsman aft at the wheel, silence except for the lapping of the sea against the side of the ship. At that time you can be equal to Ulysses and brother to him. — Errol Flynn
The only way to get a good crew is to marry one. — Eric Hiscock
Sailing And Wind Quotes
When the winds of life don't hit your sails, you grab the oars of life and you start pushing. — Greg Plitt
Windmills, which are used in the great plains of Holland and North Germany to supply the want of falling water, afford another instance of the action of velocity. The sails are driven by air in motion - by wind. — Hermann von Helmholtz
May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks. — J. R. R. Tolkien
She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails. — Elizabeth Edwards
Come dance with the west wind and touch on the mountain tops Sail o'er the canyons and up to the stars And reach for the heavens and hope for the future And all that we can be and not what we are. — John Denver
I am in love with this world . . . I have climbed its mountains, roamed its forests, sailed its waters, crossed its deserts, felt the sting of its frosts, the oppression of its heats, the drench of its rains, the fury of its winds, and always have beauty and joy waited upon my goings and comings. — John Burroughs
I can't control the wind but I can adjust the sail. — Ricky Skaggs
The questions that used to bother me at times, do not weigh anything before the immensity of a wake so close to the sky and filled with the wind of the sea — Bernard Moitessier
For one thing, I was no longer alone; a man is never alone with the wind-and the boat made three. — Hilaire Belloc
On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty. Today is such a day. — Rumi
Sailboat Quotes
Go with the wind, you know, like a sailboat. I think that's really important when it comes to peace… inner peace especially. You can't help anyone else if you don't have it together for yourself. — Jhene Aiko
It isn't that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better. — Francis Drake
I try to look at this music career thing as the means to an end. And really, at the end of it, I see myself on a sailboat, sailing off the edge of the world. — Michelle Shocked
To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go. — Joshua Slocum
I am happy because I want nothing from anyone. I do not care for money. Decorations, titles or distinctions mean nothing to me. I do not crave praise. The only thing that gives me pleasure, apart from my work, my violin and my sailboat, is the appreciation of my fellow workers. — Albert Einstein
Wind is to us what money is to life on shore. — Sterling Hayden
I think we d like life to be like a train..but it turns out to be a sailboat. — Barbara Brown Taylor
The cabin of a small yacht is truly a wonderful thing; not only will it shelter you from a tempest, but from the other troubles in life, it is a safe retreat. — Lewis Francis Herreshoff
The days pass happily with me wherever my ship sails. — Joshua Slocum
When I forget how talented God is, I look to the sea. — Whoopi Goldberg
Fishing Boats Quotes
We have reached the time in the life of the planet, and humanity's demand upon it, when every fisherman will have to be a river-keeper, a steward of marine shallows, a watchman on the high seas. We are beyond having to put back what we have taken out. We must put back more than we take out. — Thomas Mcguane
The wilderness does not make you forget your normal life so much as it removes the distractions for proper remembering. — Jim Harrison
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day. — George Carlin
Maybe your stature as a fly fisherman isn't determined by how big a trout you can catch, but by how small a trout you can catch without being disappointed. — John Gierach
Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you. — Wendell Berry
There is no greater fan of fly fishing than the worm. — Patrick F. McManus
The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it. — Patrick Young
I used to like fishing because I thought it had some larger significance. Now I like fishing because it's the one thing I can think of that probably doesn't. — John Gierach
The best fisherman I know try not to make the same mistakes over and over again; instead they strive to make new and interesting mistakes and to remember what they learned from them. — John Gierach
A river is water is its loveliest form; rivers have life and sound and movement and infinity of variation, rivers are veins of the earth through which the lifeblood returns to the heart — Roderick Haig-Brown
What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul. — Corrie Ten Boom
Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire that urged adventurers of old to set forth in their sailing-ships for foreign lands. — Jean Batten
If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends. — John Enoch Powell
The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea. — Ovid
O my son! The dunya (world) is a deep ocean in which many have drowned! Let your ship be taqwallah (fear of Allah), and load your ship with Iman-billah (believe in Allah), and let her sail be tawakkal (trust) on Allah! Insha'Allah you will survive then. — Luqman
There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful. — Fernando Pessoa
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. — Sterling Hayden
Crossing at a ford occurs often in a man's lifetime. It means setting sail even though your friends stay in harbour, knowing the route, knowing the soundness of your ship and the favour of the day. — Miyamoto Musashi
I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way. — John Paul Jones
Sailing And Love Quotes
I sail with you on the ocean of my dreams
to a far away distant Place of great beauty and tranquility.
where suffering and pain do not exist,
where we give praises for our joy and happiness,
where our Love interwines with Love for all things. — Rumi
As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts. — Herman Melville
I grew up on the beaches of Southern California surfing and sailing and I've always loved horses so it was part of my dream that I was able to fulfill to have horses. — Bo Derek
I love sailing and water sports; whether it's water skiing, body boarding or surfing or simply swimming in the ocean. — Karolina Kurkova
It's remarkable how quickly a good and favorable wind can sweep away the maddening frustrations of shore living. — Ernest K. Gann
I am driven out of fatherlands and motherlands. Thus I now love only my children's land, yet undiscovered, in the farthest sea; for this I bid my sails search and search. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Ay me! for aught that ever I could read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth. — William Shakespeare
There's a lot of women out there, some of whom are my age who've never been married and some who have been married and would like to be married again but think their ship has sailed, and I'm like, 'Oh no, honey, let Miss Niecy show you it is never too late for love!' — Niecy Nash
For hours, in fall days, I watched the ducks cunningly tack and veer and hold the middle of the pond, far from the sportsman;... but what beside safety they got by sailing in the middle of Walden I do not know, unless they love its water for the same reason that I do. — Henry David Thoreau
Give me a spirit that on this life's rough sea Loves t'have his sails filled with a lusty wind, Even till his sail-yards tremble, his masts crack, And his ship run on her side so low That she drinks water, and her keel plows air. — George Chapman
Sailors And The Sea Quotes
All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken. — Thomas Wolfe
And the voices in the waves are always whispering to Florence, in their ceaseless murmuring, of love - of love, eternal and illimitable, not bounded by the confines of this world, or by the end of time, but ranging still, beyond the sea, beyond the sky, to the invisible country far away! — Charles Dickens
Sailors, with their built in sense of order, service and discipline, should really be running the world. — Nicholas Monsarrat
There is but a plank between a sailor and eternity. — Thomas Gibbons
I don't know who named them swells. There's nothing swell about them. They should have named them awfuls. — Hugo Vihlen
Bad cooking is responsible for more trouble at sea than all other things put together. — Thomas Fleming Day
I believe in living, I believe in birth, I believe in the sweat of love and in the fire of truth and I believe that a lost ship, steered by tired, sea sick sailors, can still be guided home to port — Assata Shakur
Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates. — Mark Twain
At last the anchor was up, the sails were set, and off we glided. It was a sharp, cold Christmas; and as the short northern day merged into night, we found ourselves almost broad upon the wintry ocean, whose freezing spray cased us in ice, as in polished armor. — Herman Melville
Row Boats Quotes
There are always a lot of people so afraid of rocking the boat that they stop rowing. We can never get ahead that way. — Harry S. Truman
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Rowing harder doesn't help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction. — Kenichi Ohmae
Prayer and praise are the oars by which a man may row his boat into the deep waters of the knowledge of Christ. — Charles Spurgeon
It's easier in some ways being on the life raft and the other guy's in the boat and you can row alongside and be supportive. In some ways, that's an easier role. — Sayings
Nodding the head does not row the boat. — Irish Proverbs
A marriage is like a long trip in a tiny row boat: if one passenger starts to rock the boat, the other has to steady it, otherwise, they will go to the bottom together. — David Reuben
The great religions are the ships, Poets the life boats. Every sane person I know has jumped overboard. — Hafez
Whatever is stealing your peace and rocking your boat, what ever is taking your smile away, reach down, pick it up, and throw it overboard. — Jentezen Franklin
The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat. — Jacques Yves Cousteau
Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining. — Anne Lamott
You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if I touch near the fire the impalpable ash or the wrinkled body of the log, everything carries me to you, as if everything that exists, aromas, light, metals, were little boats that sail toward those isles of yours that wait for me. — Pablo Neruda
If you deconstruct Greece, you will in the end see an olive tree, a grapevine, and a boat remain. That is, with as much, you reconstruct her. — Odysseas Elytis
I thought when I became a Christian I had nothing to do but just to lay my oars in the bottom of the boat and float along. But I soon found that I would have to go against the current. — Dwight L. Moody
Get out of the boat. Face your fears. Fail. Learn. Adjust. Try again. And watch God do more than you can imagine. — Craig Groeschel
The moon and sun are travelers through eternity. Even the years wander on. Whether drifting through life on a boat or climbing toward old age leading a horse, each day is a journey, and the journey itself is home. — Matsuo Basho
Fear is a thief. It robbed Peter of a perfectly good walk on water, & kept the other eleven in the boat. — Bill Johnson
When I get a chance to play golf or go on a boat with good people, take the boat out and put some lobsters on the grill, get the ice-cold beer and the cigars - that's heaven here on earth. — Bernie Mac
Then, there was Greenpeace, I remember that when they first started out with the boats in the waters, and the guys in the boats between the whales and the boats that will hunting the whales with spear guns. — Rick Danko
I was head of the Cold Weather Warfare unit within the Special Boat Service. My job was to do extreme climbs, learn about new technology, and create new ideas on how to operate in those conditions. — Nirmal Purja
Don't try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We're all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat - and the boat is perpetually sinking. — Aldous Huxley
One should be surrounded by people who can help. We are all sitting in the same boat. — Emmanuelle Charpentier
From the sea came a boat with some Israeli commando soldiers who took me by the commando boat to the yacht and put me on the yacht. In the yacht I asked people, who are you. And they said we are Israelis, French and British. — Mordechai Vanunu
Oh yeah - I watched Knife in the Water, saw the shot, and repeated it. But even if I hadn't seen that film, inevitably the camera would've ended up on top of that mast, I mean if you think of it there are only so many dynamic shots on a boat. — Phillip Noyce
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