Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Mariners quotes

"The sea finds out everything you did wrong."

- Francis Stokes

 "The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

 "He who lets the sea lull him into a sense of security is in very grave danger"

- Hammond Ines

 "Being hove to in a long gale is the most boring way of being terrified I know."

- Donald Hamilton

"Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time."

- Joseph Conrad

"To the question, "When were your spirits at the lowest ebb?" the obvious answer seemed to be, "When the gin gave out."

- Sir Francis Chichester

"Only fools and passengers drink at sea."

- Allan Villiers

 "At sea, I learned how little a person needs, not how much."

- Robin Lee Graham

"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 once knew a writer who, after saying beautiful things about the sea, passed through a Pacific hurricane, and he became a changed man".

- Joshua Slocum

"The sea always wins when it wants to"

- Captain Robin Walbridge

 "Red sky by morning, sailor take warning. Red sky at night, sailor's delight".

  - Anonymous

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