Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dave Barry

He's a boating enthusiast, although that phrase seems too weak to describe the level of his interest, kind of like describing someone as a heroin fancier.

Dave Barry

You have to be careful on the deck, because of the "hatches," which are holes placed around a sailboat at random to increase the insurance rates.

Dave Barry

Sailboats are the slowest form of transportation on Earth with the possible exeption of airline flights that go through O'Hare.

Edward Heath

I have no interest in sailing around the world. Not that there is any lack of requests for me to do so.

Charles Kingsley

Three fishers went sailing away to the west,/ Away to the west as the sun went down.

Elizabeth Bishop

Ports are necessities, like postage stamps or soap, but they seldom seem to care what impressions they make.

Who is staring at the sea is already sailing a little.

We're still sailing right now. We've done nothing yet.

Albert Einstein

My sailing system set sail, make it fast, no thoughts of energy or velocity, loll back, let boat drift.

Andrew Jackson

You are uneasy; you never sailed with me before, I see.

Alexander Wang

I'm not like most designers, who have to set sail on an exotic getaway to get inspired. Most of the time, it's on my walk to work, or sitting in the subway and seeing something random or out of context.

Alexander Dale Oen

Nothing comes sailing by itself.

I told them that we have to treat this like a championship series and that it's going to be smooth sailing after this.

Christopher Columbus

I'm telling you that India is that way, now set my course.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The moral earth, too, is round! The moral earth, too, has its antipodes! The antipodes, too, have their right to exist! There is still another world to be discovered--and more than one! Set sail, you philosophers!

J. P. Morgan

I'll do business with anyone, but I'll only go sailing with gentlemen.

P. J. O'Rourke

This is the most elaborate and luxurious method of convincing others that you can cook. Take everybody out on your yacht until they're green in the face. Then you can rave for weeks about your sauce marinara and no one will gainsay you..

P. J. O'Rourke

A dugout is much superior to a conventional manufactured canoe because you can get soaking wet without bothering to capsize it.

Fernando Pessoa

Sailing is necessary, living is not necessary.

Johnny Depp

Thats what a ship is, you know. Its not a keel and a hull and a deck and sails. Thats what a ship needs. But what a ship is. What the Black Pearl really is . . . is freedom.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

To reach a port we must set sail

John Ruskin

Living without an aim, is like sailing without a compass.

I used to own a dingy and can still sail one if pushed, but I like the pleasure boats.

Jimmy Buffett

I just thank God I don't live in a trailer.

James Spithill

If you're not getting close to capsize, you're provably not pushing hard enough

Thomas Mallon

The romantic appeal of solar sailing has ensured that its advocates consistently come from the worlds of both science fiction and science fact.

Joseph Conrad

The humblest craft that floats makes its appeal to a seaman by the faithfulness of her life.

Judy Holliday

We were wavering around like a ship without a sail.

Robert Bork

It is a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is time to be old To take in sail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Headwinds are sore vexations and the more passengers the sorer.

Walt Whitman

O Captain my Captain! our fearful trip is done, / The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won

W. S. Gilbert

The happiest hour a sailor sees Is when he's down At an inland town, With his Nancy on his knees, yo ho! And his arm around her waist!