(184 quotes found)
“To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
“It was the schooner Hesperus, / That sailed the wintry sea; / And the skipper had taken his little daughter, / To bear him company.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“What, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck; I pray you excuse me. I have no time to listen to such nonsense.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“Now when we had discovered Cyprus, we left it on the left hand, and sailed into Syria, and landed at Tyre: for there the ship was to unlade her burden.”
Bible
“Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail: then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey.”
“Thus, I steer my bark, and sail On even keel, with gentle gale.”
Matthew Green
“I am standing upon the seashore.A ship at my side spreads her whitesails to the morning breeze and startsfor the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength. I stand and watch her until at length she hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sea and sky come to mingle with each other.Then, someone at my side says;"There, she is gone!""Gone where?"Gone from my sight. That is all. She is just as large in mast and hull and spar as she was when she left my side and she is just as able to bear her load of living freight to her destined port.Her diminished size is in me, not in her.And just at the moment when someoneat my side says, "There, she is gone!"There are other eyes watching her coming,and other voices ready to take up the gladshout;"Here she comes!"And that is dying.”
Henry Van Dyke
“[It is] a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel.”
Robert H. Bork
“Have a care, therefore, where there is more sail than ballast.”
William Penn
“You are uneasy; you never sailed with me before, I see.”
Andrew Jackson
