(201 quotes found)
“If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.”
Seneca
“If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever”
St. Thomas Aquinas
“To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
“No wind favors him who has no destined port.”
Michel de Montaigne
“In every mess I find a friend, / In every port a wife.”
Charles Dibdin
“One can advise comfortably from a safe port.”
Soren Kierkegaard
“He enters the port with a full sail.”
Virgil
“Besides the interstates, you're also near the Port of Charleston, and we have all these other industries nearby. You have that huge expansion going on at Institution Food House, and now this QVC distribution center coming in, this is definitely a trucking hub.”
April Locklear
“What happened was there were eight Lasts; the first five came out of another port, and they went out into the Channel and waited. Now around dusk, with [the remaining three Lasts], when it came time for us to go out and rendezvous with them, we ended up with one escort ship. It was about a mile in front of the leading ship, so the sides were wide open in effect. My ship, the 507, is the last ship in line, which is bad.”
Angelo Charles Crapanzano
“First we just gave them these surpluses. Next we agreed to pay freight on transportation to ports. Then we agreed to mill the grain and package it. The next thing [you know] we'll be asked to cook it and serve it.”
Allen J. Ellender
