List Of Nautical Quotes

To Reach A Port We Must Set Sail

There Never Was A Great Man Yet Who Spent All His Life Inland.

Men In A Ship Are Always Looking Up, And Men Ashore Are Usually Looking Down.

There Is Nothing -- Absolutely Nothing -- Half So Much Worth Doing As Simply Messing About In Boats. In Or Out Of 'em, It Doesn't Matter. Nothing Seems Really To Matter, That's The Charm Of It. Whether You Get Away, Or Whether You Don't; Whether You Arrive At Your Destination Or Whether You Reach Somewhere Else, Or Whether You Never Get Anywhere At All, You're Always Busy, And You Never Do Anything In Particular; And When You've Done It There's Always Something Else To Do, And You Can Do It If You Like, But You'd Much Better Not.

When I Forget How Talented God Is, I Look To The Sea.

Headwinds Are Sore Vexations And The More Passengers The Sorer.

Thats What A Ship Is, You Know. Its Not A Keel And A Hull And A Deck And Sails. Thats What A Ship Needs. But What A Ship Is. What The Black Pearl Really Is . . . Is Freedom.

The Humblest Craft That Floats Makes Its Appeal To A Seaman By The Faithfulness Of Her Life.

How Inappropriate To Call This Planet Earth When It Is Quite Clearly Ocean.

The Ocean Is An Object Of No Small Terror.