Sailing Quotes And Sayings – Some Funny, Some Inspirational

by allinspiration.com

“I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott

“Separately there was only wind, water, sail, and hull, but at my hand the four had been given purpose and direction.”
– Lowell Thomas

“If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.”
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.”
– Marjorie Holmes

“The first glance at the pillow showed me a repulsive sentinel perched upon each end of it–cockroaches as large as peach leaves–fellows with long, quivering antennae and fiery, malignant eyes. They were grating their teeth like tobacco worms, and appeared to be dissatisfied about something. I had often heard that these reptiles were in the habit of eating off sleeping sailors’ toe nails down to the quick, and I would not get in the bunk any more. I lay down on the floor. But a rat came and bothered me, and shortly afterward a procession of cockroaches arrived and camped in my hair. In a few moments the rooster was crowing with uncommon spirit and a party of fleas were throwing double somersaults about my person in the wildest disorder, and taking a bite every time they stuck. I was beginning to feel really annoyed. I got up and put my clothes on and went on deck.”
– Mark Twain

“We enjoy sailing small boats, two of which I have designed and built myself.”
– Martin Ryle

“Keep your hand on the helm.”
– Matthew Goldman

“Be patient with your boaters and let them rant. Most of them will get over it come December.”
– Matthew Goldman

“One takes what the river offers, both good and bad. The joy of living by running water far outweighs the sorrow.”
– Matthew Goldman

“What is time to a water rat? What is time to the river? Only we humans obsess over days and minutes, hours and seasons.”
– Matthew Goldman

“Thus, I steer my bark, and sail On even keel, with gentle gale.”
– Matthew Green

“Maybe you’re getting into the rhythm of sailing life,” says James. He looks out at the waves that are rolling in to lap against the dock. “You know, the tides going in and then out, the wind blowing east and then west, the high of a perfect day out on the water, the low of a thunderstorm or a wind that won’t go your way.”
– Melissa C. Walker

“I try to look at this music career thing as the means to an end. And really, at the end of it, I see myself on a sailboat, sailing off the edge of the world.”
– Michelle Shocked

“If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn’t worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it’s life or death.”
– Morgan Freeman

“When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.”
– Napolean Hill

“Gliders, sail planes, they’re wonderful flying machines. It’s the closest you can come to being a bird.”
– Neil Armstrong

“Sailors, with their built in sense of order, service and discipline, should really be running the world.”
– Nicholas Monsarrat

“The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!”
– Noam Chomsky

“When I go abroad I always sail from Boston because it is such a pleasant place to get away from.”
– Oliver Herford

“To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes

“If I have a Sunday free, I’ll go up the coast and spend some time on the beach. I scuba dive and swim and sail. A lot of the things I like are around the water.”
– Parker Stevenson

“Who is staring at the sea is already sailing little.”
– Paul Carvel

“She found out that having something to do prevented you from feeling seasick, and that even a job like scrubbing a deck could be satisfying, if it was done in a seamanlike way. She was very taken with this notion, and later on she folded the blankets on her bunk in a seamanlike way, and put her possessions in the closet in a seamanlike way, and used ‘stow’ instead of ‘tidy’ for the process of doing so. After two days at sea, Lyra decided that this was the life for her.”
– Philip Pullman

“The man who would be fully employed should procure a ship or a woman, for no two things produce more trouble.”
– Plautus

“I use filming as an excuse to take classes. I got my certification in sailing for ‘Wedding Crashers,’ and now I can handle a 26-foot boat. I played a seamstress once, so I took sewing classes. I love dipping into these other lives.”
– Rachel McAdams

“The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Just about a month from now I’m set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.”
– Richard Halliburton

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