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There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.
Sep 29, 2025
There is but a plank between a sailor and eternity.
The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor.
He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.
Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.
Praise the sea; on shore remain.
The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.
I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began.
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
We must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.
There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.
The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.
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.
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.
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.
Bad cooking is responsible for more trouble at sea than all other things put together.
Out of sight of land the sailor feels safe. It is the beach that worries him.
All I ask is a tall ship and a star to sail her by.
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.
Sailors, with their built in sense of order, service and discipline, should really be running the world.
At sea, I learned how little a person needs, not how much.
Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit.
He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.
There is indeed, perhaps, no better way to hold communion with the sea than sitting in the sun on the veranda of a fishermen's café
Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.
The sea hath no king but God alone.
Hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic.
Man marks the earth with ruin - his control stops with the shore.
The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable.
Any damn fool can navigate the world sober. It takes a really good sailor to do it drunk.
A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company
No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everthing in me that is bewildered and confused.
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.
Plan ahead: It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.
It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.
There is a tide in the affairs of men
There is a time in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.
There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.
I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
It isn't that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better.
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.
The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
I wanted freedom, open air and adventure. I found it on the sea.
There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.
He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.