Sailing a boat calls for quick action, a blending of feeling with the wind and water as well as with the very heart and soul of the boat itself. Sailing teaches alertness and courage, and gives in return a joyousness and peace that but few sports afford.
Even if it is made up of gold, the sailing boat can go nowhere without the humble wind!
But God!Who could live like this , anyway, with the kind of guesswork that was enough to make a person crazy, just sailing along, taking bumps here and there, no course navigated whatsoever, with any big wave capable of just tipping and sinking you entirely. IT was madness, stipidity, and- (then I saw him)
The moral earth, too, is round! The moral earth, too, has its antipodes! The antipodes, too, have their right to exist! There is still another world to be discovered--and more than one! Set sail, you philosophers!
Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.
We were wavering around like a ship without a sail.
It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for.
To expel hunger and thirst there is no necessity of sitting in a palace and submitting to the supercilious brow and contumelious favour of the rich and great there is no necessity of sailing upon the deep or of following the camp What nature wants is every where to be found and attainable without much difficulty whereas require the sweat of the brow for these we are obliged to dress anew j compelled to grow old in the field and driven to foreign mores A sufficiency is always at hand
Of all the things that man has made, no is so full of interest and charm, none possesses so distinct a life and character of its own, as a ship.
I know not that there is anything in nature more soothing to the mind than the contemplation of the moon, sailing, like some planetary bark, amidst a sea of bright azure. The subject is certainly hackneyed; the moon has been sung by poet and poetaster. Is there any marvel that it should be so?
There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.
I challenge you to a duel!” screamed the cat, sailing over their heads on the swinging chandelier.
I'm telling you that India is that way, now set my course.
No literature is richer than that of the sea. No story is more enthralling, no tradition is more secure.
In Western Australia they don't even know how to make that vital piece of sailboating equipment, the gin and tonic.
The world is like a vast sea: mankind like a vessel sailing on its tempestuous bosom. . . . [T]he sciences serve us for oars.
It's remarkable how quickly a good and favorable wind can sweep away the maddening frustrations of shore living.
He who lets the sea lull him into a sense of security is in very grave danger.