Mariners Quotes

"I have the mouth of a sailor. I have to remember not to drop F-bombs when I'm ordering my lunch. Nothing is supposed to be offensive about it, it's just meant to be real".

 Kristen Bell

"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... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company."

Samuel Johnson


"It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean".

John Locke

"The sea finds out everything you did wrong".

Francis Stokes

 "The sea has neither meaning nor pity."

Anton Chekhov

 "When a man comes to like a sea life, he is not fit to live on land."

Dr. Samuel Johnson

Only two sailors, in my experience, never ran aground. One never left port and the other was an atrocious liar."

Don Bamford

 "The sea has neither meaning nor pity."

Anton Chekhov

 "The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness."

Joseph Conrad

 "There is but a plank between a sailor and eternity."

Thomas Gibbons

"A sailor is an artist whose medium is the wind."

Webb Chiles

 "I can't wait for the oil wells to run dry, for the last gob of black, sticky muck to come oozing out of some remote well. Then the glory of sail will return."

Tristan Jones

"If you can not arrive in daylight, then stand off well clear, and wait until dawn. After all, that's one of the things God made boats for- to wait in."

Tristan Jones

 "Without patience, a sailor I would never be."

Lee Allred

 "The chance of mistakes are about equal to the number of crew squared"

Ted Turner

 "It isn't that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better."

Sir Francis Drake

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