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The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
If you are going to do something, do it now. Tomorrow is too late.
He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
The chance for mistakes is about equal to the number of crew squared.
Money can't buy you happiness but it can pay for the plastic surgery.
I am not a fan of being in the sea. I like being in a boat - sailing.
Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
If you don't know what port you are sailing to, no wind is favourable.
A small craft in an ocean is, or should be, a benevolent dictatorship.
I'll do business with anyone, but I'll only go sailing with gentlemen.
A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
The thing I realized this last few days is that the earth is a big place.
The goal is not to sail the boat, but rather to help the boat sail herself.
Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.
We enjoy sailing small boats, two of which I have designed and built myself.
You mustn't miss the moment. There's only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
Men in a ship are always looking up, and men ashore are usually looking down.
The sooner we learn to be jointly responsible, the easier the sailing will be.
He who lets the sea lull him into a sense of security is in very grave danger.
...arranging the journey was so difficult. Getting home again was much easier.
Being hove to in a long gale is the most boring way of being terrified I know.
If you're not getting close to capsize, you're provably not pushing hard enough
Drifting, On a sea of forgotten teardrops, On a lifeboat, Sailing for Your love
Columbus's doom-burdened caravels Slant to the shore, and all their seamen land.
Waves are not measured in feet or inches, they are measured in increments of fear.
I started sailing because I had to stop playing tennis so much, as I had bad knees.
We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.
When I'm not surfing or sailing, I am to be found at the harbour working on my boat.
Three fishers went sailing away to the west,/ Away to the west as the sun went down.
My dad bought us boats. I think he thought sailing was a wholesome way to spend time.
Off Cape Horn there are but two kinds of weather, neither one of them a pleasant kind.
I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship.
Bad cooking is responsible for more trouble at sea than all other things put together.
It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
I used to own a dingy and can still sail one if pushed, but I like the pleasure boats.
Even if it is made up of gold, the sailing boat can go nowhere without the humble wind!
Even though I grew up surfing and sailing in Southern California, I was born horse crazy.
Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment
I wanted to be a doctor in sports medicine; I was into sailing and all that sort of thing.
In the time it takes us to look beyond the lies, we could be sailing in each other's eyes.
There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.
Be patient with your boaters and let them rant. Most of them will get over it come December.
The humblest craft that floats makes its appeal to a seaman by the faithfulness of her life.
Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.
Sports like sailing, rowing, and bobsled have long vexed spectators and television producers.
As a cabin boy on a Norwegian sailing ship I earned five kronen a week in addition to my keep.
The most ordinary conditions for observing sailing birds are then the wind and sea are both aft.
Horses and mules, and even sail cars, made more rapid progress than did the earliest locomotive.
Whenever your preparations for the sea are poor; the sea worms its way in and finds the problems.