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  • There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.

    Life   Ocean   Army  
    Joseph Conrad (1905). “Lord Jim”, p.7, McClure, Phillips & Company
  • I must go down to the sea again For the call of the running tide It's a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied.

    Running   Sea   Sailing  
    "Sea Fever" l. 5 (1902)
  • To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.

    Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7”, p.248, Best Books on
  • The desire to build a house is the tired wish of a man content thenceforward with a single anchorage. The desire to build a boat is the desire of youth, unwilling yet to accept the idea of a final resting place.

    Tired   Men   Ideas  
    Arthur Ransome, Brian Hammett (2002). “Racundra's third cruise”, Wiley
  • I must down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life, To the gull's way and the whale's way where the wind's like a whetted knife And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow rover, And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over.

    Life   Dream   Sweet  
    'Sea Fever' (1902)
  • There are only two colors to paint a boat, black or white, and only a fool would paint a boat black.

    Color   Two   White  
  • Some years ago - never mind how long precisely - having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.

    Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.1, Velvet Element Books
  • Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off - then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.

    Herman Melville (2002). “Moby-Dick: A Picture Voyage : an Abridged and Illustrated Edition of the Original Classic”, p.13, Spinner Publications
  • He who lets the sea lull him into a sense of security is in very grave danger.

    Sea   Sailing   Nautical  
  • Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.

  • O Captain! My Captain! our fearful trip is done.

    "O Captain! My Captain!" l. 1 (1871)
  • There is a time in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.

    'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 215
  • The only way to get a good crew is to marry one.

    Sea   Sailing   Nautical  
  • I hate storms, but calms undermine my spirits.

    Bernard Moitessier (1995). “The Long Way”, p.62, Sheridan House, Inc.
  • O Captain my Captain! our fearful trip is done, / The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won

    "O Captain! My Captain!" l. 1 (1871)
  • Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

    Rocks   Guy   Sailing  
    Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.12, Open Road Media
  • You do not ask a tame seagull why it needs to disappear from time to time toward the open sea. It goes, that's all.

    Sea   Sailing   Needs  
    Bernard Moitessier (1995). “The Long Way”, p.3, Rowman & Littlefield
  • All I ask is a tall ship and a star to sail her by.

    Stars   Sea   Sailing  
    John Masefield, “Sea Fever”
  • A small craft in an ocean is, or should be, a benevolent dictatorship.

  • The days pass happily with me wherever my ship sails.

  • There is nothing -- absolutely nothing -- half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. In or out of 'em, it doesn't matter. Nothing seems really to matter, that's the charm of it. Whether you get away, or whether you don't; whether you arrive at your destination or whether you reach somewhere else, or whether you never get anywhere at all, you're always busy, and you never do anything in particular; and when you've done it there's always something else to do, and you can do it if you like, but you'd much better not.

    Kenneth Grahame (1988). “My Dearest Mouse: 'The Wind in the Willows' Letters”, Viking Press
  • Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

    "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.
  • There is nothing like lying flat on your back on the deck, alone except for the helmsman aft at the wheel, silence except for the lapping of the sea against the side of the ship. At that time you can be equal to Ulysses and brother to him.

    Brother   Lying   Sea  
  • For one thing, I was no longer alone; a man is never alone with the wind-and the boat made three.

    Men   Wind   Sailing  
    Hilaire Belloc (1996). “Hills and the Sea”, p.126, Northwestern University Press
  • At sea, I learned how little a person needs, not how much.

    Sea   Sailing   Nautical  
  • I am a citizen of the most beautiful nation on earth, a nation whose laws are harsh yet simple, a nation that never cheats, which is immense and without borders, where life is lived in the present. In this limitless nation, this nation of wind, light, and peace, there is no other ruler besides the sea.

  • And the winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

    "History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire". Volume 6,
  • There is little man has made that approaches anything in nature, but a sailing ship does. There is not much man has made that calls to all the best in him, but a sailing ship does.

    Men   Sea   Sailing  
  • Whenever your preparations for the sea are poor; the sea worms its way in and finds the problems.

  • I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.

    Lonely   Stars   Sea  
    "Sea Fever" l. 1 (1902).
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