“If I'd had it my way, I'd have been a professional athlete, a sailor, a beachcomber, or some other form of hobo, a painter, a gardener, a novelist, a banjo-player, a traveler, anything but a rich man.”
William Steig
“We're definitely fully into it, but we're not changing who we are. We're still professional sailors.”
Paul Cayard
“Why, you may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together - what do you get? The sum of their fears”
Winston Churchill
“You are not a fully fledged sailor unless you have sailed under full sail,”
Irish Proverb
“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
“A sailor must have his eye trained to the rocks and sands as well as the north star”
Proverb
“Of all the husbands on the earth, The sailor has the finest berth, For in 'is cabin he can sit, And sail and sail and let 'er knit”
Wallace Irwin