Having a yacht is a reason for being more cheerful than most. — Kurt Vonnegut
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
Anyone who has to ask about the annual upkeep of a yacht can't afford one. — J. P. Morgan
As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom. — Coco Chanel
Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it. — David Lee Roth
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
I always say that a girl never really looks as well as she does on board a steamship, or even a yacht. — Anita Loos
Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly rising o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes, Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm. — Thomas Gray
Light boats sail swift, though greater hulks draw deep. — William Shakespeare
The boat follows the helm, the woman follows her husband. — Vietnamese Proverbs
There is no better boat than a horoscope to help a man cross over the sea of life. — Varahamihira
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
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
Short Yacht Quotes
At sea, I learned how little a person needs, not how much. — Robin Lee Graham
Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit. — Brooks Atkinson
Any damn fool can navigate the world sober. It takes a really good sailor to do it drunk. — Francis Chichester
The ocean has always been a salve to my soul. — Jimmy Buffett
A small craft in an ocean is, or should be, a benevolent dictatorship. — Tristan Jones
Wind is to us what money is to life on shore. — Sterling Hayden
Whenever your preparations for the sea are poor; the sea worms its way in and finds the problems. — Francis Stokes
There never was a great man yet who spent all his life inland. — Herman Melville
I haven't bought a yacht or an island or even a palm tree. — David A. Siegel
Money can't buy you happiness but it can pay for the plastic surgery. — Joan Rivers
Yacht Image Quotes
Sailing Yacht Quotes
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
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
People say that life is a cesspool of darkness and dispair. Well we of Van Halen are sailing through it in a yacht! — David Lee Roth
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 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. — Arthur Ransome
I am not a yachting person, by nature, but I have just enough experience on the sea under sail to feel a certain nostalgia for it when I see a big white racing yacht heeled over at cruising speed on the ocean, and I can still tie a mean bowline knot on just about anything in less than 10 seconds. — Hunter S. Thompson
Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time. — Joseph Conrad
Men in a ship are always looking up, and men ashore are usually looking down. — John Masefield
[on buying a private island] Money doesn't buy you happiness, but it buys you a big enough yacht to sail right up to it. — Johnny Depp
All I ask is a tall ship and a star to sail her by. — John Masefield
Sailboat Quotes
I wanted freedom, open air and adventure. I found it on the sea. — Alain Gerbault
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
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 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
I think we d like life to be like a train..but it turns out to be a sailboat. — Barbara Brown Taylor
The days pass happily with me wherever my ship sails. — Joshua Slocum
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
For many years I enjoyed the pleasure of cruising on my yacht all summer long and these were my best holidays. In mid-May, we'd start in St Tropez. I'd collect my bikinis from my home there and then we'd go up to Cannes for the Film Festival, on to Monte Carlo for the Grand Prix and then to Italy. — Ivana Trump
Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won't make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa - and it's about getting a balance. — Richard Branson
My first job was in sixth grade, sweeping the clay tennis courts at the yacht club near my house, which I was not a member of. Always had to pay my own rent. But I don't really have any concept of how money works. I don't know how much things cost. Like a BMW. Or a quart of milk. It's embarrassing. — Chloe Sevigny
Layering and changeability: this is the key, the combination that is worked into most of my buildings. Occupying one of these buildings is like sailing a yacht; you modify and manipulate its form and skin according to seasonal conditions and natural elements, and work with these to maximize the performance of the building. — Glenn Murcutt
I ain't the captain of the yacht, but I'm on the boat; I ain't acting what I'm not, knowing that I don't. You niggaz acting like you will, but I know you won't. Man, I read between the lines of the eyes of your brows, Your handshake ain't matchin your smile. — Beanie Sigel
The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible. — Gore Vidal
I don’t want a yacht. — Sam Bankman-Fried
Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work. The lesson one learns from yachting or planting is the manners of Nature; patience with the delays of wind and sun, delays of the seasons, bad weather, excess or lack of water. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I never had the high-paying job or the company car. It took me over a decade to pay off my student loans. I never had to worry about where to dock my yacht to reduce my taxes. — Christine O'Donnell
Do you know what Margaret Thatcher did in her first Budget? Introduced VAT on yachts! It somewhat ruined my retirement. — Edward Heath
Of all the things that man has made, no is so full of interest and charm,
none possesses so distinct a life and character of its own, as a ship. — Henry Van Dyke
He who lets the sea lull him into a sense of security is in very grave danger. — Hammond Innes
The idea behind Reaganomics is this: a rising tide lifts all yachts. — Walter F. Mondale
I've been a river kayaker for a long time and I've done quite a few trips. I like kayaking and I like canoeing. I don't really like being on yachts or sailboats or cruise ships. I don't like anything that's large and not human-powered. — Misha Collins
I was born in the breezes, and I had studied the sea as perhaps few men have studied it, neglecting all else. — Joshua Slocum
I am not a multimillionaire. I dont own a yacht or a Ferrari. I live in a 60-square- metre flat. My needs are simple. — Ferran Adria
Yeah. A feeling. Like the whole point of my life from the alleys in Bangkok to the yachts and private island to coming here like a crazy person trying to fly a helicopter like all of it from birth to here point A to point Z was all some big cosmic trick to get me to meet you. - Sanjit to Lana — Michael Grant
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