Sailing Quotes And Sayings – Some Funny, Some Inspirational

by allinspiration.com

“Design has taken the place of what sailing used to be.”
– Dennis Conner

“My goal in sailing isn’t to be brilliant or flashy in individual races, just to be consistent over the long run.”
– Dennis Conner

“Sailings just the bottom line, like adding up the score in bridge. My real interest is in the tremendous game of life.”
– Dennis Conner

“Only two sailors, in my experience, never ran aground. One never left port and the other was an atrocious liar.”
– Don Bamford

“Just because I am paranoid does not mean that someone is not out to get me.”
– Don Darkes

“This is largely the methodology I’ve used throughout my career – that is, starting with a question as to what might be the properties of a set of compounds that could be invented which were unusual and unpredictable. Many times I’ve felt a bit like Columbus setting sail.”
– Donald Cram

“If a prospective Presidential approach can’t be explained clearly enough to be understood well, it probably hasn’t been thought through well enough. If not well understood by the American people, it probably won’t “sail” anyway. Send it back for further thought.”
– Donald Rumsfeld

“He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea.”
– Dr. Thomas Fuller

“Say, it’s only a paper moon, / Sailing over a cardboard sea.”
– E. Y. Harburg

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

“For all my years in public life, I have believed that America must sail toward the shores of liberty and justice for all. There is no end to that journey, only the next great voyage. We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we make.”
– Edward Kennedy

“The sooner we learn to be jointly responsible, the easier the sailing will be.”
– Ella Maillart

“‘Tis the set of the sail that decides the goal, and not the storm of life.”
– Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“Come, cuddle your head on my shoulder, dear, Your head like the golden-rod, And we will go sailing away from here. To the beautiful land of Nod.”
– Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats.”
– Ernest Hemingway

“The sea hates a coward.”
– Eugene O’Neill

“To reach a port, we must sail – sail, not tie at anchor – sail, not drift.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.”
– Franz Grillparzer

“If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasant waters for our old age.”
– Freya Stark

“It so happened that I was on a German sailing vessel on the way to Australia when the ship was captured, and on the high seas I was made prisoner by the French.”
– Fritz Sauckel

“As a cabin boy on a Norwegian sailing ship I earned five kronen a week in addition to my keep.”
– Fritz Sauckel

“With this idea, being a man with long experience of the sea (and they certainly have a great advantage over other men in any sort of task)…”
– Garcilaso de la Vega

“…this beginning motion, this first time when a sail truly filled and the boat took life and knifed across the lake under perfect control, this was so beautiful it stopped my breath…”
– Gary Paulsen

“It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.”
– George William Curtis

“They that go down to the sea in ships’ see strange things, but what they tell is oft-times stranger still. A faculty for romancing is imparted by a seafaring life as readily and surely as a rolling gait and a weather-beaten countenance. A fine imagination is one of the gifts of the ocean-witness the surprising and unlimited power of expression and epithet possessed by the sailor. And a fine imagination will frequently manifest itself in other ways besides swear words. (“The Gorgon’s Head”)”
– Gertrude Bacon

“He who lets the sea lull him into a sense of security is in very grave danger.”
– Hammon Ines

“Men go back to the mountains, as they go back to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and on the sea they must face up.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind – this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for.”
– Henry Van Dyke

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