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Sailor Quotes

1.
Calm seas never made a good sailor
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Authors on Sailor Quotes: Ronald Reagan Bob Hope William Shakespeare Peter Levi Henry David Thoreau H. L. Mencken Avi Franklin D. Roosevelt Rudyard Kipling Morgan Freeman Nicholas Rodger Tobias Lindholm Evan Esar Abby Sunderland Fritz Sauckel Naoko Takeuchi Walter Scott Gretel Ehrlich Ricky Gervais Anna Freud Kristen Bell Leah Remini Tom Feeney Carl Sagan Edmund Waller Jimmy Webb Hal Moore Gordon Lightfoot Og Mandino Anne Sexton Luanne Rice Keith Coogan Rick Yancey
2.
We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean.
Anna Freud

3.
There is but a plank between a sailor and eternity.
Thomas Gibbons

4.
We could say the government spend like drunken sailors, but that would be unfair to drunken sailors, because the sailors are spending their own money.
Ronald Reagan

5.
For a sailor to sail around the world, the thought is just, sometimes, too much. Thus, one simply goes from port to port in the same direction.
Hal Moore

6.
How odd it is that sewing is thought to be 'women's work' when surgeons, sailors, and cowboys sew too. Yet how many female thoracic surgeons are there? And if precision motor activities are thought to be performed better by women, why wouldn't they make better surgeons too?
Gretel Ehrlich

7.
It is not true that Congress spends money like a drunken sailor. Drunken sailors spend their own money. Congress spends our money.
Arthur Laffer

8.
Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.
Edmund Waller

9.
She been looking like a queen in a sailor's dream.
Gordon Lightfoot

10.
My earrings are worth just enough to buy me a coffin if I die in a strange place. That was the reason why sailors used to wear them.
Morgan Freeman

11.
Beautiful. All this suffering at the moment of destruction.
Naoko Takeuchi

12.
Wouldn't a sailor laugh at you if you told him that the whole crossing depends on the first turn of the helm?
Emile Chartier

13.
I'm what you call a Depression sailor.
Ernest Borgnine

14.
A sailor may choose the wind to ride out of seaport, but the wind has a mind of it's own.
Avi

15.
The man who has a girl in every port is not a sailor but a wholesaler.
Evan Esar

16.
Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze.
Carl Sagan

17.
To say Congress is spending like drunken sailors is an insult to drunken sailors.
Ronald Reagan

18.
Navigation is easy. If it wasn't, they wouldn't be able to teach it to Sailors.
James Lawrence

19.
Smooth seas don't produce skillful sailors.
Lynn Austin

20.
A great mind is a good sailor, as a great heart is.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

21.
All men will be sailors then Until the sea shall free them
Leonard Cohen

22.
I never played a rich man, I never played a prince. And to play a sailor or longshoreman you had to make your dance more eclectic and varied, but still keep it indigenous to your nationality, upbringing, and background.
Gene Kelly

23.
Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
H. G. Wells

24.
The sailor cannot see the north / but knows the needle can.
Emily Dickinson

25.
The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.
Samuel Butler

26.
Going up the mast is one of the most dangerous things you can do as a solo sailor.
Abby Sunderland

27.
Tell that to the marines - the sailors won't believe it.
Walter Scott

28.
I always played a soldier, sailor, or policemen.
John Ratzenberger

29.
They have been grand-jurymen since before Noah was a sailor
William Shakespeare

30.
There was once an old sailor my grandfather knew, Who had so many things which he wanted to do That, whenever he thought it was time to begin, He couldn't because of the state he was in.
A. A. Milne

31.
In the Arctic I met some Russian sailors on a submarine and they chorused, "Gordon's alive!"
Brian Blessed

32.
I have the mouth of a sailor.
Kristen Bell

33.
Every Naval vessel has a contingent of Marines aboard. After all, the Sailors have to have someone to dance with.
Bob Hope

34.
A good sailor knows everything is always changing.
Luanne Rice

35.
You've got to think of the fine times you had with your mate, not the moment of his perishin'. Every tear you shed now only wets his windin' sheet and disturbs his rest
L.A. Meyer

36.
An angry skipper makes an unhappy crew.
Rudyard Kipling

37.
The impossibility of keeping Englishmen sober ashore was a constant source of complaint, It was the great weakness of 16th century English infantrymen, whose performance when sober was admired even by the Spaniards. Already it was true, as it was to be for centuries, that many saw and despised the drunken sailor ashore, but few knew and admired him at his work afloat.
Nicholas Rodger

38.
Whoever you are, you've got to start from where you are. If you're a sailor, and only know sailor's language, well, write in it, for God's sake.
Peter Levi

39.
Not only have our citizens endured domestic disaster, but they've lived through one international humiliation after another, one after another. We all remember the images of our sailors being forced to their knees by their Iranian captors at gunpoint.
Donald Trump

40.
The allurement that women hold out to men is precisely the allurement that Cape Hatteras holds out to sailors; they are enormously dangerous and hence enormously fascinating.
H. L. Mencken

41.
So far as inland discovery was concerned, the adventurous spirit of the English was that of sailors who land but for a day, and their enterprise the enterprise of traders.
Henry David Thoreau

42.
Miss Marks, you see, makes her living by...entertaining young, and not so young, sailors...or any other members of the armed forced, or civilians, who enjoy...being entertained by ladies who...entertain.
Rick Yancey

43.
I'm a sailor, not a politician.
Fritz Sauckel

44.
When NYDJ called me and told me that Christie Brinkley was going to be on set with me I freaked out. And when I met Christie, she had a little freak out because she said that her daughter Sailor loved me so much.
Ashley Graham

45.
To complain about critics in a business is like a sailor complaining about the waves. Go back to the beach if you don't like it.
Ricky Gervais

46.
It is part of a sailor's life to die well.
Stephen Decatur

47.
Although I do have a sailor's mouth, it's not attractive for me to hear men cursing. That kinda talk is not charming.
Leah Remini

48.
As I've grown - dare I say it - older, I had hopes of indulging my dreams of being a sailor.
Jimmy Webb

49.
The wind is never for the sailor who knows not to what port he is bound.
Og Mandino

50.
I cuss like a sailor; I smoked cigarettes for many years but quit and have never looked back; also, I ride a motorcycle... in Los Angeles... so there ya go.
Keith Coogan