(560 quotes found)
“Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks”
Warren Buffett
“We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.”
Dale Carnegie
“I knew what they were after; that I had alarmed the country all the way up, that their boats were caught aground, and I should have 500 men there soon. One of them said they had 1500 coming; he seemed surprised and rode off into the road, and informed them who took me, they came down immediately on a full gallop.”
Paul Revere
“Your life is an island separated from all other islands and continents. Regardless of how many boats you send to other shores or how many ships arrive upon your shores, you yourself are an island separated by its own pains, secluded in its happiness”
Kahlil Gibran
“Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.”
Woody Allen
“You cannot sink someone else's end of the boat and still keep your own afloat.”
Charles Bower
“The Owl and the Pussy-Cat went to sea/ In a beautiful pea-green boat,/ They took some honey, and plenty of money,/ Wrapped up in a five-pound note.”
Edward Lear
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.”
William Shakespeare
