Quotes by Nautical Only fools and passengers drink at sea. Alan Villiers nautical sailing sea How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean. Arthur C. Clarke nautical ocean interesting Being hove to in a long gale is the most boring way of being terrified I know. Donald Hamilton nautical sailing long If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most. E. B. White nautical sailing men The ocean is an object of no small terror. Edmund Burke nautical sailing ocean The only way to get a good crew is to marry one. Eric Hiscock nautical sailing sea I want a boat that drinks 6, eats 4, and sleeps 2. Ernest K. Gann nautical sailing sleep No literature is richer than that of the sea. No story is more enthralling, no tradition is more secure. Felix Riesenberg nautical sailing sea To the question, "When were your spirits at the lowest ebb?" the obvious answer seemed to be, "When the gin gave out." Francis Chichester nautical sailing answers The sea finds out everything you did wrong. Francis Stokes nautical sailing sea To reach a port we must set sail Franklin D. Roosevelt port nautical sailing He who lets the sea lull him into a sense of security is in very grave danger. Hammond Innes nautical sailing sea There never was a great man yet who spent all his life inland. Herman Melville nautical sailing men I don't know who named them swells. There's nothing swell about them. They should have named them awfuls. Hugo Vihlen nautical sailing should-have Spirits rise as the sails fill... Jim Moore nautical sailing sea Men in a ship are always looking up, and men ashore are usually looking down. John Masefield nautical sailing men The goal is not to sail the boat, but rather to help the boat sail herself. John Rousmaniere nautical sailing goal Thats what a ship is, you know. Its not a keel and a hull and a deck and sails. Thats what a ship needs. But what a ship is. What the Black Pearl really is . . . is freedom. Johnny Depp nautical sailing black The humblest craft that floats makes its appeal to a seaman by the faithfulness of her life. Joseph Conrad nautical sailing crafts There is nothing -- absolutely nothing -- half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. In or out of 'em, it doesn't matter. Nothing seems really to matter, that's the charm of it. Whether you get away, or whether you don't; whether you arrive at your destination or whether you reach somewhere else, or whether you never get anywhere at all, you're always busy, and you never do anything in particular; and when you've done it there's always something else to do, and you can do it if you like, but you'd much better not. Kenneth Grahame nautical sailing somewhere-else 12»