Sail Quotes - page 2

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast. (William Penn)
Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
The Germans themselves I should regard as aboriginal, and not mixed at all with other races through immigration or intercourse. For in former times, it was not by land but on shipboard that those who sought to emigrate would arrive; and the boundless and, so to speak, hostile ocean beyond us, is seldom entered by a sail from our world. View quote
Tacitus
Marriage makes a man more vulnerable by doubling the expanse of sail exposed to the tempests of social life. View quote
André Maurois
Melancholy and remorse form the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality; we run aground sooner than the flat-bottomed pleasure-lovers but we venture out in weather that would sink them and we choose our direction. View quote
Cyril Connolly
She must find a boat and sail in it. No guarantee of shore. Only a conviction that what she wanted could exist, if she dared to find it. View quote
Jeanette Winterson
I wanted to break the record, of course, and become the youngest person to sail around the world solo and unassisted. View quote
Abby Sunderland
One day that same year, I told my dad that someday, I would sail around the world alone. View quote
Abby Sunderland
I will definitely attempt to sail around the world again. In fact, I can't wait for the chance to try again. View quote
Abby Sunderland
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did not need a passport for any country except Russia.:; The European emigrant, if he could scrape together a few pounds for the passage, simply set sail for America or Australia, and when he got there no questions were asked.:; In the eighteenth century it had been quite normal and safe to travel in a country with which your own country was at war. View quote
George Orwell
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. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.)
In order to read one must sit down, usually indoors. I am restless and would rather sail a boat than crack a book. I've never had a very lively literary curiosity, and it has sometimes seemed to me that I am not really a literary fellow at all. Except that I write for a living. View quote
E. B. White
Sail on Silver Girl, Sail on by Your time has come to shine All your dreams are on their way See how they shine If you need a friend I'm sailing right behind... View quote
Paul Simon
Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars. View quote
Carl Sagan
What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness. View quote
Bernard Cornwell
I leaned right over to kiss your stoney book A little jealous of the ships with whom you flirt A billion lovers with their cameras Snap to look and in my fantasy I sail beneath your skirt. View quote
Andy Partridge
Life is like stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink. View quote
Shunryu Suzuki
Thus, I steer my bark, and sail On even keel, with gentle gale. View quote
Matthew Green
When I go abroad I always sail from Boston because it is such a pleasant place to get away from. View quote
Oliver Herford
As ships becalmed at eve, that lay With canvas drooping, side by side, Two towers of sail, at dawn of day Are scarce, long leagues apart, descried. View quote
Arthur Hugh Clough
Mother, mother ocean, I have heard you call. Wanted to sail upon your waters Since I was three feet tall. You've seen it all, you've seen it all.Watched the men who rode you, Switch from sails to steam. And in your belly you hold the treasure That few have ever seen. Most of them dreams, Most of them dreams. (Jimmy Buffett)
Perhaps we cannot raise the winds. But each of us can put up the sail, so that when the wind comes we can catch it. View quote
E. F. Schumacher
We'd be making sail in the dawn, with a fair breeze, singing a chanty song wid no care to it. And astern the land would be sinking low and dying out, but we'd give it no heed but a laugh, and never look behind. For the day that was, was enough, for we was free men - and I'm thinking 'tis only slaves do be giving heed to the day that's gone or the day to come - until they're old like me. View quote
Eugene O'Neill
A sail boat that sails backwards can never see the sun rise. View quote
Bill Cosby
If the Spray discovered no continents on her voyage, it may be that there were no more continents to be discovered. She did not seek new worlds, or sail to pow-wow about the dangers of the sea. View quote
Joshua Slocum