(625 quotes found)
“A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.”
William Shedd
“A ship is always referred to as she because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder”
Chester W. Nimitz
“The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.”
Douglas Adams
“Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment”
Owen Felltham
“It's not the towering sail, but the unseen wind that moves the ship”
Proverb
“Rats desert a sinking ship.”
“We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever”
St. Thomas Aquinas
“Loose lips sink ships”
American Proverb
“I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting on the powder barrel with her lighted torch and all the time knowing that it is empty? This has seemed to me a charming image of the women of my time. There they were, keeping the world in order by sitting on the mystery of life, and knowing themselves that there was no mystery.”
Isak Dinesen
