Sailor Quotes

Calm seas never made a good sailor

We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean.

There is but a plank between a sailor and eternity.

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.

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.

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?

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

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

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

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

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.

Beautiful. All this suffering at the moment of destruction.

I'm what you call a Depression sailor.

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

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

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

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

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

Smooth seas don't produce skillful sailors.

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.

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

A great mind is a good sailor, as a great heart is.

All men will be sailors then Until the sea shall free them

I always played a soldier, sailor, or policemen.

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

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

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

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

They have been grand-jurymen since before Noah was a sailor

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.

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

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

I have the mouth of a sailor.

A good sailor knows everything is always changing.

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

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.

An angry skipper makes an unhappy crew.

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.

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.

A married man forms married habits and becomes dependent on marriage just as a sailor becomes dependent on the sea.

Denmark is a country built on a commercial fleet. That's basically what we have been doing. We're just a small country of islands, and every family has a sailor.

Evolution did not intend trees to grow singly. Far more than ourselves they are social creatures, and no more natural as isolated specimens than man is as a marooned sailor or hermit.

Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast, Ready with every nod to tumble down Into the fatal bowels of the deep.

the marriage twists, holds firm, a sailor's knot.

It's not fair to say that Congress spends money like a drunk sailor. At least the sailor is spending his own money!

I would not creep along the coast but steer Out in mid-sea, by guidance of the stars.

The difference between congressmen and drunken sailors is that drunken sailors are spending their own money.

Whereas the slums in Hamburg are the slums of its sailors, Berlin is a big slum.

I like to sail. My son Caden and I are avid sailors.

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.