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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Mariners Quotes

"Off Cape Horn there are but two kinds of weather, neither one of them a pleasant kind."

John Masefield

 "It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage."

George William Curtis

 "Mackerel skies and mares tails, soon will be time to shorten sails."

Old sailors

 "He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea."

Thomas Fulle

"A sailor's joys are as simple as a child's."

Bernard Moitessier

 "The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats."

Ernest Hemingway

 "There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea."

Joseph Conrad

 "Out of sight of land the sailor feels safe. It is the beach that worries him."

Charles C. Davis

"Design has taken the place of what sailing used to be."

Dennis Conner

 "Protesting the New York Yacht Club is like complaining about your wife to your mother in law."

Capt. Angus Walters

 "The Americas Cup is a race of management, money, technology, teamwork and, last and incidently, sailing."

Bill Kock

"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 Wendel Holmes

"Ships are the nearest things to dreams that hands have ever made".

Robert N. Rose

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