Ship Quotes - page 3

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. (Samuel Johnson)
I do not advocate burning your ship to get rid of the cockroaches. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
FRIENDSHIP, n. A ship big enough to carry two in fair weather, but only one in foul. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Science is a magnificent force, but it is not a teacher of morals. It can perfect machinery, but it adds no moral restraints to protect society from the misuse of the machine. It can also build gigantic intellectual ships, but it constructs no moral rudders for the control of storm tossed human vessel. It not only fails to supply the spiritual element needed but some of its unproven hypotheses rob the ship of its compass and thus endangers its cargo. View quote
William Jennings Bryan
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life. View quote
Seneca
They say a woman's place Is to wait and serve Under the veil Submissive and dear But I think my place Is in a ship from space To carry me The hell out of here. View quote
Laura Nyro
One of my first jobs was on a lesbian cruise. I was the ship comedian for the Lesbian Love Boat. View quote
Margaret Cho
The Islamic community today is faced with a new version of an old struggle. My late mother used to say it doesn't matter whether you came to this country on the Mayflower or on a slave ship, through Ellis Island or the Rio Grande. We're all in the same boat now. View quote
Carol Moseley Braun
Some of our German passengers on the ship would be crying. The Brits were the same way. They were crying, because they realized a new war was about to break out across Europe, with Hitler at the head of the goose-stepping parade. View quote
Frank Buckles
Life is short, and pleasures few, and holed the ship, and drowned the crew, But O! But O! How very blue the sea is! View quote
Clive Barker
Life is as the sea, art a ship in which man conquers life's crushing formlessness, reducing it to a course, a series of swells, tides and wind currents inscribed on a chart. (Ralph Ellison)
Only one ship is seeking us, a black- Sailed unfamiliar, towing at her back A huge and birdless silence. In her wake No waters breed or break. View quote
Philip Larkin
It's getting late. I must return to my ship or my men will think I've drowned and be celebrating. View quote
Michael Moorcock
391. To a crazy ship all windes are contrary. View quote
George Herbert
The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty. View quote
Pablo Neruda
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. View quote
George Chapman
Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there aren't no Ten Commandments, an' a man can raise a thirst. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
Great works of art can be produced in barbarous societies - in fact the very narrowness of primitive society gives their ornamental art a peculiar concentration and vitality. At some time in the ninth century one could have looked down the Seine and seen the prow of a Viking ship coming up the river. Looked at today in the British Museum, it is a powerful work of art; but to the mother of a family trying to settle down in her little hut, it would have seemed less agreeable - as menacing to her civilisation as the periscope of a nuclear submarine. View quote
Kenneth Clark
A ship without Marines is like a garment without buttons. View quote
David Dixon Porter
About here, she thought, dabbling her fingers in the water, a ship had sunk, and she muttered, dreamily half asleep, how we perished, each alone. View quote
Virginia Woolf
Green, how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches. The ship out on the sea and the horse on the mountain. (Federico García Lorca)
In the brief monthly reports of the Security Police, I only want figures on how many Jews have been shipped off and how many are currently left. View quote
Heinrich Himmler
Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger the load, the greater will be the profit upon profit. View quote
Hesiod
Top-heavy was the ship as a dinnerless student with all Aristotle in his head. View quote
Herman Melville
When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck; when you invent the plane you also invent the plane crash; and when you invent electricity, you invent electrocution... Every technology carries its own negativity, which is invented at the same time as technical progress. View quote
Paul Virilio