Quotes on Nautical

The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.

And the winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

One cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

The ocean is an object of no small terror.

To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.

The sail, the play of its pulse so like our own lives: so thin and yet so full of life, so noiseless when it labors hardest, so noisy and impatient when least effective.

A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.

The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.

Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.

Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.

There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.

To reach a port we must set sail

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

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.